Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The message we are getting from parents, teachers and children is very different from what we are being told officially. There is a problem here. The case of Kate Crowley illustrates more than anything else that the system, at its core, lacks advocacy for the child. It should be about the facilitation of children's constitutional right to an education. That should be the driving spirit behind how people within the system work, whereas what we are now getting is a shortening of deadlines.

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