free books. However, another cost that has been placed on parents trying to get their kids back to secondary school is really expensive laptops for each child. Laptops cost from €500 to €700 and even more, and every child who starts secondary school - in the schools … system has put another burden on top of that. If you have a couple of children in school, and children are children so laptops break, there will be quite an expensive run on laptops every few years.
Will there be research into screen time and using laptops
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absolutely not. In the middle of August, a very distressed and deeply upset mother came to me about the price of a laptop for the school where her child was going into first year. The cost of the laptop was €500. She could not pay it. I considered
primary school. In fairness, Deputy O'Reilly has championed the need for us to look at that scheme with a view to laptops and iPads. That is something I am anxious to do.
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