{"id":400,"date":"2012-05-17T10:22:08","date_gmt":"2012-05-17T10:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/crowe-commends-norths-education-minister-for-securing-additional-funding\/"},"modified":"2012-05-17T10:22:08","modified_gmt":"2012-05-17T10:22:08","slug":"crowe-commends-norths-education-minister-for-securing-additional-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/crowe-commends-norths-education-minister-for-securing-additional-funding\/","title":{"rendered":"Crowe commends North\u2019s education minister for securing additional funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>Crowe commends North\u2019s education minister for securing additional funding <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Sinn F\u00e9in\u2019s Education Spokesperson Se\u00e1n Crowe welcomes this week\u2019s  announcement from the North\u2019s education minister, John O\u2019Dowd that a  further \u00a372million will be spent over the next three years following an  education budget review.<\/p>\n<p>Deputy Crowe said: \u201cThe \u00a372 million extra in funding is good news for anyone interested in education on the island of Ireland.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe additional allocation will be spent on early years, extended  schools, the youth service and the maintenance of the school estate. The  money was secured after an internal review led to further reductions in  bureaucracy and savings from other educational services.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI commend Minister O\u2019Dowd for his efforts and the initiative he has  shown. In the face of tough financial challenges, he has secured  additional funding that will be reinvested into frontline education  services. As a result of this review, low income families will now enjoy  additional funding for free school meals and uniform grants and \u00a327  million is being ring-fenced in 2012-13 to help address the maintenance  backlog, a measure that is added good news for the beleaguered  construction industry.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs ever increasing numbers of families struggle to cope in these  difficult financial times, a further \u20ac3.9 million is being provided to  supplement provision for the 75,000 pupils in the North who currently  are entitled to free school meals. This money, which will be directed  towards lower income families, will be used to pay for uniform grants  and free school meals and the Minister\u2019s pro-activeness is in sharp  contrast to the lack of urgency that characterises the approach of the  FG\/Labour government to this issue.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMinister O\u2019Dowd has paid more than lip-service in his attempts to  find savings through addressing inefficiencies within his department\u2019s  overall budget. I look forward to similar promised savings announcements  and pro-active commitments from Minister Quinn in the near future.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crowe commends North\u2019s education minister for securing additional funding Sinn F\u00e9in\u2019s Education Spokesperson Se\u00e1n Crowe welcomes this week\u2019s announcement from the North\u2019s education minister, John O\u2019Dowd that a further \u00a372million will be spent over the next three years following an education budget review. Deputy Crowe said: \u201cThe \u00a372 million extra in funding is good news [&hellip;]<\/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-400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400","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=400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}