An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business
Dail Éireann — 2022-06-28
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Micheál Martin (FF), Cork South-Central

The Deputy acknowledged that this has been the largest ever increase in the DEIS programme. We will work with the Minister regarding other aspects of supports for those schools, particularly in terms of meals, etc. It was interesting to see that the systemic study undertaken by the Economic and Social Research Institute, ESRI, of the education systems North and South, that we funded under the shared island programme, identified the DEIS programme as being a key factor in better school completion rates in the Republic and in progression to third level. That is illustrative of the value of this funding. I will come back to the Deputy on this issue.

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