Irish schools need serious investment now [labour.ie]
- Published: 20 January 2010
The remarks that Ireland's schools are a cause for national shame made by Lord Puttnam, the Open University Chancellor and a British Labour Party peer, in Dublin last night are a sad but true assessment of our education system. Puttnam, the award winning film director, lives in Skibbereen, Co. Cork
Ireland is currently spending 4.7% of GDP on education, which is far below the OECD average. I believe Ireland needs to set a target of spending a minimum of 7.0% of GDP on our education system over a period of years and to keep that level of expenditure. This will be required to repair the damage done by Fianna Fail.
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