Up to 60 Traveller students in one school on reduced timetables

"We know of one Southern-based school where up to 60 Travellers in that school are on a reduced timetable," said Bernard Joyce, director of the Irish Traveller Movement.

A school in the south of the country has up to 60 Traveller students attending on reduced timetables, which limit the amount of time a child spends in school.

The introduction of official guidelines intended to curtail the inappropriate use of the practice, for example as a type of informal suspension, was delayed last year due to the pandemic.