Jan O'Sullivan (Limerick East, Labour)

I congratulate the Minister on being named Magill Politician of the Year last night. She must be somewhat smarter than her colleagues. Were they fooling the people when they said in the agreed programme for Government that they would bring the class sizes down to European norms and the under-nines would be in classes with a ratio lower than 20:1? As soon as the Minister took office she said she could not do this and she has just told us that the capacity is for only 500 teachers in the year. The Minister is obviously the brightest and the best but what about her colleagues and their promise?

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