Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

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As part of the 2012 budget decisions, there is a phased increase in the number of pupils required to gain and retain a classroom teaching post in small primary schools with four teachers or less. An appeals process is available to small schools which have had their staff numbers reduced because of budgetary measures. Schools with four teachers or less losing a teacher and which fail to gain an additional teacher as a result of the 2012 budget measures are entitled to submit their appeal to the primary staffing appeals board. That appeals board takes into account all those considerations and operates independently of the Department of Education and Skills and its decision on the matter is final. That issue affects schools in isolated areas. As the Deputy knows, there is a number of them in my constituency.

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