Dominic Hannigan (Meath East, Labour) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Minister of State for his honesty and his response. I agree with him that this is a very good scheme but I also agree that the way it is applied is unfair. I am very disappointed with the tenet of the response. We are all in politics because we believe it to be in the interests of people to work on their behalf. Politics is the art of the possible and if the Department says its own scheme is unfair I cannot believe we cannot look again and try to make it fair. I realise this has probably landed on the Minister of State's desk very recently and he may not have been aware of it in the past but, bearing in mind that he agrees with me that the current situation is unfair on schools such as the ones I named, St. Patrick's national school in Stamullen and Gaelscoil na Mí in Ashbourne, I ask him to re-examine this.

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