Paul Gogarty (Dublin Mid West, Green Party)

We were told it would take extra teachers, schools and classrooms and that the revenue and capital resources would have to be increased to pay for them. That is agreed, but the Labour Party did not spell out how many teachers would be provided or how much it would invest in school buildings. The only commitment given was to introduce legislation, which I support, to ensure land could be acquired by compulsory purchase order and to transfer responsibility for school building projects to the National Treasury Management Agency.

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