Máirín Quill
Question:175 Miss Quill asked the Minister for Education the plans, if any, she has to ensure that Irish primary education which was recently shown by an OECD report to be the most under-funded in Europe, benefits from European funding; the way in which the new article 126 of the Maastricht Treaty, which creates a European imperative to support and supplement national education policy, will impact on Irish primary education; and if he will make a statement on the matter.