Jonathan O'Brien (Cork North Central, Sinn Fein)

What criteria will the Department use in this review? If it is the same criteria used in formulating the budget, then there will be no different outcome. The Minister has taken a divide-and-conquer approach in allowing each school to make its own representations. This is unacceptable. The schools and parents are asking for no cuts to DEIS, full stop. Parents of schools who may be saved from any cuts are not going to stand idly by while the school next door gets cuts.

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