Thomas Byrne (Meath East, Fianna Fail)
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444. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the estimated full-year cost of restoring the visiting teacher service for Travellers to primary and post primary schools. [51121/17]

Katherine Zappone (Dublin South West, Independent)
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As the Deputy may be aware, the Visiting Teachers Service for Travellers was discontinued with effect from September 2011, in line with Department of Education and Skills policy on the phasing out of segregated Traveller provision.

The Department of Education and Skills have advised that the funding costs for the programme in the final full year of the programme in 2010 were €2,716,737.