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‹ Order of Business Funding for Protestant schools
Summary
Senator Mullen criticises the increased block grant for Protestant schools as inadequate to address disadvantage caused by pupil-teacher ratios.
There should also be a grant to replace inefficient appliances.
The announcement by the Minister for Education and Skills last week to increase the block grant to Protestant schools by €250,000 is little more than the politics of spin and shallowness. It does nothing to address the serious disadvantage faced by minority faith schools because of raising the pupil-teacher ratio and I call for this to change.