Richard O'Donoghue (Limerick County, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I am delighted to hear that because then we want to have an investigation to know if there are teachers being taught this and then having to teach this to children under the age of consent. This is what I want to make sure. Something like this should not happen under the age of consent and I would support this. The Government is spending upward of €900,000 on telephone boxes to hide telephones in schools. It then comes along and gives out free books, which I welcome, but it took away the SNA teachers. It took away the funding from people who help people who need help but have given it to another section. Again, the way the budget has been handed out, it has not been given to all education sectors. It took from one and gave to another. Again, when you look across the board at schools across this country, there are schools pupils can cycle to and schools they cannot cycle to. They all got a bike shed grant even if pupils are not able to cycle to school in the back of beyond. They still got a grant for it and were only allowed use it for that purpose, even if there was other stuff in those schools that fund could have been used for.

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