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

The Irish Primary Principals Network, IPPN, raised some concerns about the employment of teachers with restricted recognition. The IPPN chief executive officer, Seán Cottrell, said, "The proposed profiling of schools will enable those with the greatest level of need to secure the greater resource. However, some schools may lose practically all of their current supports while others may run the risk of becoming "ghetto schools". It is essential that schools which lose resources should only do so over a period of time. Many of the schools losing resources will rightly point out that the support they received was used to move pupils more quickly between bands which will be more difficult to do in the future." These are genuine concerns of the IPPN about the how the report's recommendations will be implemented. Will the Minister respond to those concerns?

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