Seanad debates

Wednesday, 13 April 2005

Special Educational Needs: Motion.

 

3:00 pm

Photo of Joanna TuffyJoanna Tuffy (Labour)

I thank the Minister for her presentation. The INTO's campaign to reduce class sizes is based on the premise that smaller class sizes are crucial in tackling educational disadvantage and providing quality education to our pupils. The Fianna Fáil motion claims there are now 4,000 more primary school teachers and over 2,000 in post-primary schools than in 1997. The Minister for Education and Science claimed the figures for resource teacher positions speak for themselves. However, they do not when one sees the real pupil-teacher ratio as highlighted by the INTO. The motion also "acknowledges that these extra teaching resources have been used to reduce class sizes". This is not the case.

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