Charlie McConalogue (Donegal North East, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I am not looking for the Minister to go round the country dispensing largesse to different schools. I want the Minister to realise the impact of the measures he has taken and to ensure that impact is minimised by the way he runs the Department. Schools are finding it difficult. A policy of not visiting those schools the Minister is responsible for managing is the wrong approach. I encourage him to do that and to listen to the impact his policies have had. We face a funding crisis at primary school level at the end of the year unless the Minister changes his approach to the minor works grant. He is putting unbearable pressure on families who want to educate their children is a system that is supposed to be free.

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