Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)

As regards disadvantage, each school provided and interpreted its respective information. Questions on local authority housing were asked and some schools may have included local authority housing waiting lists because they were familiar with the particular circumstances of their students.

In the coming school year, there will be no justification for classes of 33 or 34 students where a staff allocation has been made on a pupil-teacher ratio of 28:1.

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