Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)

While I cannot treat County Kildare any differently to the rest of the country, that county and other developing areas have special status and will receive allocations based on a pupil-teacher ratio of 28:1 from September. We envisage that a further 500 teaching posts will be created next September because of enrolment increases and schedule changes. That increase will make a significant difference to class sizes.

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