Brian Hayes (Dublin South West, Fine Gael)

Last week, I published a list of 40 schools around the country that will lose a teacher from 1 September. Many of those schools have lost one or two pupils from their enrolment last September, even though they have increased their enrolment since then. As a gesture of goodwill on the Minister's part, will he consider safeguarding the 42 teachers in those 40 schools that will lose a teacher in September and, inevitably, will push up the average number of children in each of the classes in those schools?

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