DEIS school teacher losses
Micheál Martin says budget changes have savaged DEIS schools, citing the loss of nine teachers in three Cork schools. The Taoiseach says existing DEIS schools are protected but legacy classifications and enrolment changes may affect staffing, while defending the primary pupil-teacher ratio.
The DEIS schools have not been protected.
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Has the Taoiseach any idea of what is going on? The DEIS schools have been savaged.
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The Taoiseach should speak to Deputy Ó Ríordáin.
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Existing DEIS schools are protected.
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Nine teachers are gone from three DEIS schools in Deputy Coveney's constituency on the south side of Cork.
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The Government does not even know what it has done.
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The situation is that changes in numbers will have a certain impact on teachers in some schools with legacy DEIS issues.
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If something has the word "disadvantage", the Government goes for it.
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It will happen to a savage extent. I have mentioned the loss of nine teachers.
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Deputy Finian McGrath will be quite aware of the significance of the protection of the pupil-teacher ratio in primary schools. If that had been altered, obviously it would have given rise to a very different kind of argument.
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What about one-teacher, two-teacher, three-teacher and four-teacher schools?