GALWAY SENATOR SAYS EDUCATION CUTS IN GALWAY ARE 'MASSIVE'

Date Published: 27-Oct-2008

A Galway based senator says that the education budget cuts will seriously affect pupil teacher contact time in Galway. Senator Fidelma Healy Eames says that the education 'cuts are massive' in Galway, and is calling on the Government to reverse the budget cuts in education.Speaking to GBFM news, Senator Eames also says that figures released to her show that learning for the little people in primary schools across Galway will be very difficult.Senator Eames will be upstairs in the Eyre Square shopping centre between half one and half two today, collecting signatures for a petition against the proposed cuts.She says that today's petition will be presented to Education Minister Batt O Keefe this Wednesday in the Seanad.