Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour) | Oireachtas source

And finally, there will be no reduction in the rate or the duration of the weekly fuel allowance.

Further details of the social welfare package are set out in the expenditure report and will be outlined in full by my colleague, the Minister for Social Protection, later.

Education

As I have already outlined, education has been a considerable beneficiary of our capital investment programme since we took office. We are building more schools to meet the needs of our growing school-age population. I am allocating just over €8.7 billion to the education sector. As a result, I am pleased to be able to report that we are not increasing either primary or post-primary class sizes.

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