A major seminar discussing ways to tackle educational disadvantage will be held today. The Right to Read campaign - the first of its kind - will look at the issue from a local authority perspective.
Cllr Aodhan O Riordain, the campaign founder, said: "Research shows that 30 per cent of children in disadvantaged areas have basic reading problems and the Right to Read Campaign believes that literacy is the entitlement of every child.
"The Right to Read Campaign is focused on lobbying local authorities to help eradicate illiteracy by promoting literacy initiates and prioritising the issue in their annual estimates," he said.
Speakers include Norah Gibbons, Director of Advocacy Barnardos and former Education Minister in the 1990s, Niamh Bhreatnach.
The seminar will begin at 10.30am at the Mansion House, Dublin.