Ruairi Quinn (Dublin South East, Labour)

It is my intention that when the budget has been announced and the measures have been signed off and voted upon by the Dáil, I will ask a group within the Department to examine the impact the measures may have within different schools across the country. It is not possible at this stage to predict these in advance. The measures that will be enacted in schools after the budget will start in the autumn of next year rather than in the next school year, which starts in September 2012. We will be examining it in that context.

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