Minister Quinn meets with Educational Book Publishers to Reduce School Book Costs [merrionstreet.ie]
- Published: 11 October 2011
The Minister for Education and Skills Ruairi Quinn TD has welcomed the commitment by the main educational publishers to give substantial discounts to schools that run book rental schemes.
The commitment was made at a meeting yesterday with representatives of the publishers which was called to discuss proposals to reduce the cost of school books for parents.
This was the second meeting with the publishers since the Minister took up office.
Mr Quinn had proposed that schools which purchase textbooks in bulk should be given a significant discount.
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