Seán Sherlock (Cork East, Labour)

With due respect to the Deputy, if he wanted to speak about a particular school in his constituency, I respectfully suggest he should have put that into wording of the text of the matter.

I reiterate that the unallocated deficit in the education budget for 2013 is €77 million and it is €147 million for 2014. If I understand the Deputy correctly, he said that there is a school in his constituency that is bursting at the seams and he asked why do we not take some of pupils out of that school and populate a smaller school in the constituency with them. We are not in the business in this country of engineering solutions whereby we would go into people's houses and say they must put their son or daughter into a particular school because one school is bursting at the seams and another one is just about thriving. We do not interfere with parental decisions.

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