Luke 'Ming' Flanagan
Question:231. Deputy Luke 'Ming' Flanagan asked the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 141 of 11 March 2014, in which he states that, he is conscious of the additional costs that may have to be borne by parents if workbooks are used extensively in schools and the Guidelines for Developing Textbook Rental Schemes in Schools, published by my Department in 2012, to outline a number of strategies that can be used to obviate the need for such workbooks; the definitions of the word "obviate" in my Concise Oxford Dictionary are, "clear away, get rid of, get round, neutralise"; subsumed in his answer is the belief, on his part, that there is a need for these workbooks; the reason he considers that there is a need for these workbooks; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16661/14]
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