Mick Wallace (Wexford, Independent)

It so happens that in two of the schools I visited in Wexford that were complaining about cuts to their education budget - concerning resource teachers for Travellers - they said they would like to have had an extra teacher rather than the IT facilities they received. I cannot be sure if it is the same all over the country, but when the IT materials was being given out in the good times, schools in Wexford were happy with the level of IT. They even said it was a bit on the generous side at times. They are killed now that they are losing resource teachers, which will have a much bigger impact.

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