Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)

No. It is important to work through it with people because we need a more localised dynamic. If we had principals and schools talking and working more with each other on a localised region then one could solve the matter on a community level. I am not going to introduce financial sanctions against schools. We cannot stand up here one minute saying "Give the schools more money", and then turn around and penalise the rest of those schools.

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