Fidelma Healy Eames (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

To sum up, the Minister, Deputy Quinn, has done rather a good job. He made a lot of mistakes last year with the budget but he has learned hugely from that for this year. I want to congratulate him and say I am delighted to see the pupil-teacher ratio has not changed. I do mind it changing in private schools, and I agitated for that. He has done a massive job to save SNAs and resource teachers, and to provide 900 new posts this year to take on board------