Shane Ross, Minister for sport, gives €150,000 to Wesley for their hockey pitch; another €150,000 to Loreto Beaufort to resurface a pitch – both private, well-heeled schools. What about the inner city kids? There are 40 playing-field clubs between the canals that have nowhere left to play!! TRY FLATTEN THE INEQUALITY CURVE.
Special Needs Assistants do amazing work. The challenges of helping children with special needs through school, are immense. But these skilled, essential workers are undermined, underpaid and undervalued by the very organisation that should cherish them – the Department of Education itself.
Special Needs Assistants do amazing work. The challenges of helping children with special needs through school, are immense. But these skilled, essential workers are undermined, underpaid and undervalued by the very organisation that should cherish them – the Department of Education itself.
A two-tier system that school secretaries have tolerated for far too long. These essential workers deserve their just demands.
These are clips of Bríd’s contribution to debates on the cervical smear scandal, the ban on online advertising in the referendum, and the state of our schools
Dáil, June 9. Brid questions plans to make public schools available for private profit making.