Seán Fleming (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)

The children in question only require assistance for a year or two before they can become fully integrated. There will still be 1,400 teaching staff involved in the provision of language support and the needs of individual schools will be dealt with on a case-by-case basis.

The capitation grant, which incorporates matters such as changes to the book grant, has been increased. We are returning to the 2007 level of class sizes. No one was sent home in 2007 because of overcrowding in classrooms.

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