Norma Foley announces further details of free schoolbooks scheme 

Around 558,000 children and young people, their families and their schools will benefit from the initiative

Schoolbooks will remain the property of the school and must be returned at the end of the school year.

Families will not have to buy or rent schoolbooks, copies or workbooks with the introduction of the new €50m scheme to provide free books in primary schools.

However, schoolbooks will remain the property of the school and must be returned at the end of the school year.