Seán Haughey (Dublin North Central, Fianna Fail)

I take on board the point that we should concentrate on disadvantage in education. For that reason the commitments given on the junior certificate schools programme are being honoured under the DEIS programme, as well as commitments given in the programme for Government and elsewhere. We are trying to target our resources; that is why the commitment to expand the junior certificate schools programme is being honoured. In this case, we were talking about ten schools and difficult choices had to be made.

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