Chris Andrews (Dublin Bay South, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

The Minister for Education was recently highlighting the reduction in class sizes and, where this happens, it is obviously welcome. However, in many schools, like St. Louis Primary School in Rathmines, the class sizes have increased due to the Department policy that was set prior to Covid. As a result, there is now an empty classroom in St. Louis Primary School and a teacher on the pandemic unemployment payment. Can some common sense be brought to this in order to reverse this nonsensical situation, to give the school back its teacher and to reduce class sizes?

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