Right to Read Campaign (Equal-L)

Right to Read Campaign

Seminar

‘Literacy is the Entitlement of Every Child’

Mansion House, Dublin 2

Saturday, October 20^th 2007

10.30am: Welcome and Opening

Speaker: Cllr. Paddy Bourke, Lord Mayor of Dublin

10.45am: The Problem

Chair: Cllr. Mick Rafferty (Dublin City Council)

Speakers: Mark Candon (Principal, Sheriff Street, Dublin 1)

Brendan O’Sullivan (INTO)

11.30am: Question and Answer Session

11.45am: The Solution

Chair: Cllr. Liam Kelly (Dublin City Council)

Speakers: Norah Gibbons, Director of Advocacy Barnardos

Anne Marie Kelly, Divisional Librarian, Dublin City Council

12.15pm: Question and Answer Session

12.30pm: Tea and Coffee

12.45pm: The Right to Read Campaign

Chair: Marian Guibney (School Completion Programme)

Speaker: Cllr. Aodhán Ó Ríordáin,

North Inner City Councillor and Teacher

1.00pm: Question and Answer Session

1.20pm: Keynote Address

Speaker Niamh Bhreatnach

Minister for Education 1992-1997 and current member of Dún Laoghaire / Rathdown County Council

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