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Batt O'Keeffe
CORK’S Minister for Education, Deputy Batt O’ Keeffe has come under fire after his Department reportedly issued a circular advising schools to redirect money for paying secretarial and caretaking staff to cover the cost of cuts in education.
According to the Labour Party spokesperson on Education, Deputy Ruairi Quinn, in a new circular issued by his Department, Batt O’Keeffe has “effectively asked some of the most poorly paid and treated workers in our education system to take a pay-cut so that schools can still have books to teach their pupils.”
