John Halligan (Waterford, Independent)

Boards of management across Waterford were notified by letter last Friday week that no junior infants class will be allocated special needs assistants in the coming school year except where the behaviour is extremely challenging and dangerous. At a meeting in Waterford last Monday night hundreds of parents, children, special needs assistants and teachers thronged into the Tower Hotel because they got those letters and know what is coming down the line.

If the Labour Party was even half socialist it would not contemplate doing this. All it has to do is read its party manifestos year after year which state that it would protect the most vulnerable in society. They should stand up now and tell me-----

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