Dail debate on Education cuts+Part-5+ by R. QUINN -PART V

DUBLIN 29 OCT. 2008 -
"PRIVATE MEMBERS' BUSINESS:
Deputy Ruari Quinn / Motion, as follows:
"That Dáil Éireann deplores the series of educational cuts announced in the budget and subsequently by the Minister for Education and Science; expresses its serious concern at the damage these cuts will cause to the education system and to the future prospects of our children; and calls on the Government, in particular, to reverse the decision to increase class sizes at first and second level."

The Parliament of Ireland debate the proposals to cut pupil-teacher ratios and thereby increase class-sizes to the highest levels in the European Union.
Deputy Ruari Quinn, Labour Party spokesperson on education & science, tables a 'private members' motion to bring the facts of the matters pertaining to the proposed cuts in education-funding to the attention of the House.

REPORT ON PROCEEDINGS / PART FIVE / Government minister speaks: Minister Bartholomew "Batt" O'Keeffe - a speaker listed on the oireachtas.ie website as: Batt O'Keeffe, Fianna Fáil, constituency: Cork north-west; "Minister of State at the Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government".
However, in this debate he speaks as Irish minister for education and science. In that role, the minister proposes amendment 1; which outlines the forthcoming tsunami in the Irish education sector by applying language & mathematical figures, drawing lines and circles in such a manner so as to assure that anyone, and especially those hoping to see their children obtaining an education that they themselves were lacking, will have much difficulty in deciphering.

In Part-5 we hear concluding remarks from the president of the Sinn Féin parliamentary party, Deputy Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin, followed by an address to the House of Parliament from the Republic of Ireland minister for education & science, Deputy Batt O'Keeffe, cabinet member of the republican party.
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ORDER OF BUSINESS:
+GNÓ COMHALTAÍ PRÍOBHÁIDEACHA+
+PRIVATE MEMBERS' BUSINESS+
45. Tairiscint maidir le "Ciorruithe Oideachais".
45. Motion re "Educational Cuts".
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