Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour)

Will there be changes? The Green Party says there will be changes, but that it will take more than two days to negotiate these with the Minister for Education and Science. It says there will be changes and has communicated as much to parents who have been in contact. It says Deputy Paul Gogarty will negotiate these changes, but it might take a while to do so. Will there be changes or not? Will the Government change the decision to increase class sizes? Will it change the decision to cap the number of language support teachers? Will it reverse the decision to take €7.5 million from the small grant available for school books? Will it reverse the decision to take the €2 million available for capitation for traveller education, the €2 million available for school libraries, the measures to cut grant supports for the applied leaving certificate and the other measures designed to keep children in schools? Will the Government say whether there will be changes in the announcements on education cuts, especially on the issue of class sizes?

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