Seán Crowe (Dublin South West, Sinn Fein)
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Question 851: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if and when the statutory committee on educational disadvantage will be re-established. [14570/07]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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The role of the Educational Disadvantage Committee is to advise on policies and strategies to be adopted to identify and correct educational disadvantage. My Department wrote to the education and social partners seeking their views on the composition and future work of the committee. Following on full consideration of these views, the members of the new committee will be appointed as provided for under section 32 of the Education Act, 1998. Under section 32 (3) of the Act, up to half of the membership of the committee shall be appointed from nominees of such voluntary and other bodies which have objects that are considered relevant to the work of the committee.