Mick Wallace (Wexford, Independent)

Fine. Three non-contracted teachers are being laid off and the guidance teachers are going back into the mainstream system to replace them. It is the biggest school in Ireland with 1,500 kids and because of the various strands of children entering it, the school cannot afford to cut the subjects and it considers its only option to be to lose three guidance teachers. This is a school that has experienced three suicides in the past two years. The guidance counsellors were highly valuable to the school and they are really upset about it.

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