Joan Collins (Dublin South Central, People Before Profit Alliance)

The Minister has choices like everybody else. The cost of employing the required 2,000 SNAs would be €60 million, of which €40 million would be saved on social welfare payments. Really it would cost €20 million to employ 2,000 more SNAs, which is a drop in the ocean. The Minister should consider that alternative.

The cost of subsidising private fee-paying schools teachers is €100 million.

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