Ruairi Quinn (Dublin South East, Labour) | Oireachtas source

I understand what the Deputy is proposing and I have read the comments he has made elsewhere in this regard. In reference to last year's budget, I was not proposing to cut DEIS resources as such. I was trying to equalise out of the system what we refer to as legacy posts in which one school had more resources than another, even though they were both categorised as being in precisely the same socio-economic area of distress. Perhaps I should have been wise and realised that what people have they hold, no matter what basis it has come to and how they have acquired it.

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