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Sat 11 Nov 2008Fine Gael compares O'Keeffe to 'Grandpa Simpson'
MINISTER FOR Education Batt O'Keeffe has been likened by Fine Gael to Grandpa in The Simpsons after describing as "recent" a 10-year-old report on classroom sizes during a defence of the Budget cuts in education.
Fine Gael education spokesman Brian Hayes said the attempt to pass off 10-year-old data as "recent" in an attempt to justify increasing class sizes showed Mr O'Keeffe was either not in control of his brief or subject to bouts of memory loss.
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