School Textbooks
Dail Éireann — 2022-11-24
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Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire (SF), Cork South-Central

I am encouraged by the commitment to free schoolbooks. Myself and Sinn Féin have raised this issue for several years at budget time. I regularly make the point that we are 70 years behind the North in that.
To get that delivered is not just a case of announcing it. We need to know what the model will be, where suppliers, publishers and so on fit in, and how schools will manage it. Could the Minister tell us a bit more about that?

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Sitting date: 2022-11-24