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

If the Minister was serious about addressing the issue of school costs, he would not have cut the back to education allowance by half, taken a minimum of €5,000 annually from every school in the country through the minor works grant scheme, leaving parents to come up with the money, and not taken away the summer works scheme for fixing leaky roofs. Instead, schools have to ask parents for the money, the parents to whom the Minister sent a survey as his best effort at saving them money. In the past three years he has been the single biggest source of increasing the cost of sending children to school for families.

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