Frances Fitzgerald
Question:106 Ms F. Fitzgerald asked the Minister for Education when the report on truancy which she has commissioned in her Department will be published. [3436/96]
Written Answers. - Truancy Report Publication.
The school attendance-truancy report was published in April 1994.
Early in 1995 the Minister of State at my Department, Deputy Austin Currie, established a truancy task force with the following terms of reference: to examine the submissions received from interested parties in response to the truancy report and to consider and make recommendations as to future action required to address the problems of truancy at first and second-level.
The work of the truancy task force is nearing completion.