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Galway senator to attend debate on Gaeltacht school pupil teacher ratios
Galway West Senator Trevor O’Clochartaigh is to attend an Oireachtas debate on pupil/teacher ratios in small Gaeltacht schools today.
It’s estimated around 80 per-cent of the Gaeltacht primary schools across the country have four teachers or less.
The Oireachtas Joint Committee on Education and Social Protection will meet with Eagraíocht na Scoileanna Gaeltachta to consider the matter.
The meeting takes place at 1 this afternoon.
There are worries among communities that these schools are particularly vulnerable to changes in the pupil-teacher ratio’s which were announced in the 2012 budget.
Committee member and Fianna Fail’s Spokesperson on Education Charlie McConalouge is calling on the Education Minister to ensure no further cut-backs to small schools.