Minister\u2019s decision to review funding cut to DEIS schools highlights unfairness of budget
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Sinn F\u00e9in\u2019s Education Spokesperson Se\u00e1n Crowe believes the Government\u2019s last minute decision to review cuts to disadvantaged school shows how unjustified December\u2019s Budget cuts were.
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Deputy Crowe made his comments after speaking on a Sinn F\u00e9in Private Members\u2019 Motion that called on the Education Minister Ruair\u00ed Quinn to reverse budget cuts to education.
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Deputy Crowe said: \u201cWhile welcoming the review announced last night by the minister into his decision to cut up to 428 teaching posts from disadvantaged schools it is clear that this should have been carried out before December’s budget. If the minister had done his homework before the budget we wouldn\u2019t be in this mess.
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\u201cThe relentless cuts being imposed on schools that are vitally important in tackling educational disadvantage is nothing short of a national scandal. These cuts follow on from cuts to Special Needs Assistants, Language Support Teachers and Resource Teachers for Travellers.
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\u201cThe government seems committed to implementing policies that make it harder for children and young people who need additional assistance to succeed at school. It makes a mockery of the minister\u2019s public commitment to improve literacy and numeracy standards and will undermine the progress that has been made in this area.
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\u201cNow that the minister has agreed to review cuts that should never have been proposed in the first place, he needs to ring-fence funding for children with special needs and disadvantaged schools.
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\u201cThe opposition to this cut was reflected in the large protests of teachers, parents and students at the D\u00e1il and I wish to commend everyone who mobilised and lobbied the government on this issue. The motion Sinn F\u00e9in put before the D\u00e1il under Private Members\u2019 Business is part of our commitment to try and get Minster Quinn to reverse his unjust budget cuts.
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\u201cPressure from parents, schools and educationalists needs to be stepped up in the coming weeks and months if we are to overturn this disastrous and unfair budget.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Minister\u2019s decision to review funding cut to DEIS schools highlights unfairness of budget\u00a0Sinn F\u00e9in\u2019s Education Spokesperson Se\u00e1n Crowe believes the Government\u2019s last minute decision to review cuts to disadvantaged school shows how unjustified December\u2019s Budget cuts were.\u00a0Deputy Crowe made his comments after speaking on a Sinn F\u00e9in Private Members\u2019 Motion that called on the Education […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}