{"id":571,"date":"2012-12-02T20:24:09","date_gmt":"2012-12-02T20:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/schools-education-cuts-not-sustainable-crowe\/"},"modified":"2012-12-02T20:24:09","modified_gmt":"2012-12-02T20:24:09","slug":"schools-education-cuts-not-sustainable-crowe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/schools-education-cuts-not-sustainable-crowe\/","title":{"rendered":"Schools Education Cuts Not Sustainable – Crowe"},"content":{"rendered":"

Schools Education Cuts Not Sustainable\u00a0–\u00a0Crowe<\/h2>\n

November 28th, 2012 -Sinn F\u00e9in representative Se\u00e1n Crowe TD, has said that the growing financial\u00a0crisis facing primary schools is a direct\u00a0consequence of the education\u00a0cuts to essential frontline services and is not sustainable.<\/p>\n

The Dublin South West\u00a0TD was responding to the findings of a survey published this week by the Catholic Primary School Management Association (CPSMA) which found that almost half of Irish primary schools are running a deficit and that 22% are just about breaking even.<\/div>\n
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Deputy Se\u00e1n Crowe said:<\/div>\n

\u201cIt is\u00a0unacceptable that some primary school principals are being forced to tell the parents of children to wear extra warm\u00a0clothing in order to keep warm in their freezing \u00a0classrooms.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis\u00a0\u00a0current \u00a0crisis\u00a0 can in part be attributed to the reduction in the capitation grant and the suspension of the summer work\u2019s scheme. In addition to these cuts is the mounting speculation that the Department of Education and Skills (DES) is to remove school\u00a0access to\u00a0the Minor Work\u2019s Grant, due to be paid in December.<\/div>\n
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This payment is particularly important for small schools as it includes a block payment of \u20ac5000 on top of the capitation payment and is essential for the day-to-day running\u00a0and essential\u00a0upkeep\u00a0of many schools.<\/div>\n

\u201cIt is simply not good enough\u00a0 for the Education Minister Ruairi Quinn\u00a0to describe the situation “as unacceptable” when he is ultimately responsible for what is actually happening and he needs to intervene directly and ensure this year\u2019s Minor Capital Works payment is paid out to schools that are reliant on this funding stream.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the current economic climate, it is becoming increasingly difficult or impossible \u00a0for parents to make-up the\u00a0 large shortfall in funding through voluntary contributions and it is clear from reports,\u00a0that many Irish primary schools are close to breaking point.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe findings of the CPSMA survey illustrate the extent of the problem, with over half of Irish Primary schools in deficit. The example of Wayside National School in Bluebell, Dublin, which has been left without heating because they have been unable to find \u20ac300 to pay for repairs to a boiler is a case in point.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs we approach next week\u2019s budget, I am calling on Education Minister Ruair\u00ed Quinn to examine\u00a0again\u00a0the stark\u00a0findings of this report and reverse the cuts that that he and his Cabinet colleagues are supporting and implementing against schoolchildren and their families.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Schools Education Cuts Not Sustainable\u00a0–\u00a0Crowe November 28th, 2012 -Sinn F\u00e9in representative Se\u00e1n Crowe TD, has said that the growing financial\u00a0crisis facing primary schools is a direct\u00a0consequence of the education\u00a0cuts to essential frontline services and is not sustainable. The Dublin South West\u00a0TD was responding to the findings of a survey published this week by the Catholic […]<\/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-571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}