Finian McGrath (Dublin North Central, Independent)

I welcome the Ceann Comhairle and the Taoiseach back after the summer break. I wish everyone well for this term. I wish to raise the issue of education and its importance to the country's future, in particular as a major tool to get us out of this economic mess. I just left the Leinster House gates where hundreds of parents, teachers and special needs assistants, SNAs, are protesting the education service.

Has the Government devised plans to raise the school-going age to five?

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