Department ‘owes struggling schools €300k’

A SPEECH and language pre-school network claiming to be owed more than €300,000 by the Department of Education and Science is facing bankruptcy.

The cash-strapped network, called Early Language Intervention (ELI), has struggled to pay staff during the year.

ELI managing director Joel Nudi blamed the department for failing to apply the correct tuition reimbursement rate over the past three years.