The Workers' Party submission to the Department of Education and Skills with reference to the New Education Strategy 2016-2018 highlights a number of salient points regarding our education system in general and more specifically regarding education proposals contained in the Programme for a Partnership Government 2016.
The attached submission has been sent to Mr Richard Bruton, Minister for Education with regard to the development of a new Strategy for Education and Skills (2016 – 2018) on behalf of the Workers’ Party, Dublin Mid-West Constituency. Mid-West has vast areas of poverty and educational deprivation with extremely low accession rates to third level. [...]
Workers’ Party says inclusion of school-day faith formation in nominally multi-denominational schools is evidence of the need for a state-run, secular education system Cllr. Éilis Ryan Reacting to comments made by Minister for Education Richard Bruton that he favoured the expansion of ‘Community National Schools,’ Workers’ Party Cllr. Éilis Ryan (Dublin [...]
Dublin Mid-West Workers’ Party candidate Lorraine Hennessy has launched the party’s childcare proposals which envisage the transfer of childcare provision from the private sector to local government. Lorraine Hennessy Clondalkin based Ms. Hennessy said that childcare must be fully funded by the state, free and universally available to all parents including those who [...]
Workers' Party representative for Whitehall and Glasnevin, Jimmy Dignam, has welcomed the news that an Educate Together Secondary School is to open in the area in September. Dignam stated, The announcement by the City of Dublin Education and Training Board and Educate Together that the new school will be co-located in the building currently occupied [...]
The Workers’ Party have condemned today’s budget as one which has benefitted the better off once again while throwing a few crumbs at workers and the poor with a focus on the general election rather than social justice. Workers’ Party President Michael Donnelly said that for all the hype on the 75% Christmas Bonus for [...]
