School Textbooks
Dail Éireann — 2022-11-24
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Norma Foley (FF), Kerry

The Deputy, given his position as education spokesperson, will appreciate more than most the value of engaging across the table on any departmental initiatives. That has been a feature of everything we have done, particularly since I became Minister. That engagement will continue. It will specifically include, in respect of the working out of this, the lessons learned from what we did in the past, namely, the book rental scheme and the DEIS scheme, under which there were free schoolbooks. A variety of options have been put on the table regarding central procurement. It is also a matter of ensuring autonomy within the schools. All of those options are being analysed and worked through in the Department with the partners in education, and, obviously, it will be-----

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Sitting date: 2022-11-24