Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour)

Question 52: To ask the Minister for Education and Science further to her reply to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 125, 150 and 158 of 2 October 2007 the reason for the discrepancy in the promise in the programme for Government to reduce the primary pupil-teacher ratio to one primary teacher for every 24 primary pupils by 2010 when she herself asserts that the primary pupil teacher ratio already stands at 16:1 as stated in her reply to the parliamentary questions; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28459/07]

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