Brendan Griffin (Kerry South, Fine Gael)

I proposed to the Minister for Education and Skills that he should look at the retrospective element of this proposal, which would at least give schools a fighting chance to have their allocations based on their school numbers next year, rather than in September 2011. It is not fair and I want to see it addressed.

I also want to see special exemptions in cases where schools are so geographically isolated that amalgamation will never be an option in the future. I have a school like that in my constituency in Clohane in west Kerry. It is a very geographically isolated school and its management have made a strong case for not being able to amalgamate with any other school. There needs to be an exemption in such schools.

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