Gary Gannon (Dublin Central, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Minister for her kind words and subsequently the contribution that she made to the debate. I do not think we can step away from the fact that we have a crisis in our schools that is once again impacting the most vulnerable cohorts of students. If schools are short of teachers, it means that there is a shortage in special educational needs allocation. It means that students in DEIS schools who need much more intensive teaching are left without. This is an issue that has been going on for the last two and a half or three years. Any number of solutions have been suggested. I might run through some of them and we can talk them through. The Minister mentioned the €2,000 being given to people in the professional master of education-----

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