Minister Quinn prioritises frontline services in Education [education.ie]
- Published: 05 December 2011
The Minister for Education and Skills, Ruairi Quinn, T.D., today said that while difficult choices had to be made to achieve savings across the Education and Skills budget, the Government had prioritised resources for frontline services in the coming years.
The Education allocation for current expenditure in 2012, including from the National Training Fund, will be €8.604 billion. This represents around 17% of all current expenditure next year. Savings measures being announced today will provide net savings of some €76 million in 2012 increasing to some €241 million in 2014.
Commenting on the Budget announcements Minister Quinn said that “Achieving savings in my Department’s budget has required very difficult decisions to be made particularly at a time when the school going population is increasing.”
The increase in the number of children to be accommodated in our schools means that making some adjustment to teacher numbers is unavoidable given the budgetary constraints.
“The Government has shielded, to the greatest extent possible, frontline services in schools.” the Minister said.
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