Labour call for action on educational disadvantage
The Labour Party has called on the Government to honour its commitment to introduce proposals to tackle educational disadvantage.
The demand follows the publication of CAO figures highlighting a consistently poor level of college attendance by young people from low-income areas.
Responding to the statistics, Labour TD Jan O'Sullivan said it was time the Government did something to address the problem.
"The figures that came out today show that there are still sections of - particularly Dublin, but other cities as well - where there's a very low participation rate in third-level education as compared to the rest of the country.
"The minister has been promising for years now - her predecessor and herself - that there will be proposals in relation to educational disadvantage, but they just have not been published. They need to be published and they need to be acted on."
