Easy win on class sizes trumps hard calls over third-level
Budget 2018: Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil both want credit for reducing pupil-teacher ratio
The investment in employing more teachers will bring the pupil-teacher ratio at primary level to the lowest ever level recorded of 26:1. File photograph: Dave Thompson/PA Wire
It is not often you get a tug-of-love between the Government and the Opposition party over who is responsible for a budget.