Sir, – I note your Editorial and Aisling McNiffe’s letter (August 31st) re education and special needs respectively. I conclude that until education is considered an investment and not a cost, these problems will persist. The last minister for education who fitted this profile was Donagh O’Malley (1921 -1968) RIP. Since then we’ve had the usual.
I would humbly ask the present minister to check what Finland did educationally when presented with an economic problem similar to our own. Did it target special needs? Did it target traveller education, the weak and the poor? How come it is top of the pile now? – Yours, etc,