John Curran (Dublin Mid West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I welcome that there is an appeals mechanism. The exceptional profile in this case was that the resource teaching hours for the single year in question dipped to 30. It had been 60 hours in the previous year and the average over five years had been 50 hours. The exceptional circumstance was the dip. That is the concern with this general allocation model. One particular year is being taken on its own, which may not be representative, and is clearly not representative of what has happened in this case. I acknowledge that there is an 80 hour allocation, but that is under what would have been the norm for the previous years. I welcome that the appeal mechanism is in place.

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