No, Minister, parents are doing all they can to help out schools [Independent.ie]
- Published: 22 June 2011
There was something gnawing at Education Minister Ruairi Quinn's good humour recently when he was questioned about a Carlow national school which had been blighted with a rat infestation in 2009.
After first asking "what the hell" were the school's management and principal doing, he turned his fire on the parents, demanding: "What the hell is the community doing?"
Warming to his theme, the minister elaborated: "Take that location in Carlow you are talking about. It's probably surrounded by wonderful houses with two or three cars parked outside every door, and yet the parents living in those houses are content to let them go to a school like that.
"What are they doing about it? When did they last raise it?" the minister demanded.
He ended his tirade: "If my kids were going there, and my kid is only going to be five years of age once, I would get other people around and say 'let's do something about this'."
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