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Fri 04 Apr 2009Fee-pay schools argue against cuts
SUGGESTIONS THAT the State should not pay teachers’ salaries in fee-charging schools are “simplistic” and “specious” and would actually cost the State more money, the Oireachtas Committee on Education has heard.
Sister Eileen Randles of the Loreto Education Trust said 26,000 students attended fee-charging schools and they would still have to be educated and teachers would still have to be paid.
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