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

Both my predecessor and I had to take into account the rapidly changing nature of the budgetary position on the one hand and the fact that the overall primary school population was growing and is continuing to grow. The measures that I introduced were balanced against that particular background and the proof of the pudding is in the eating. The pupil-teacher ratio in those schools is much more favourable than it is in schools generally.

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