General election candidate says school places in Laois are a lottery
A Sinn Fein led government will funnel the desperately needed funding into our schools in Laois, said Maria McCormack, the party's general election candidate in Laois.
SINN Féin’s General Election candidate in Laois Maria McCormack said that since her announcement as a general election candidate that she has been “inundated with appeals for help from parents who cannot get a place for their children in their local school.”
She said: “One secondary school in Portlaoise has had 351 applications for first years with only 192 places available. Parents are being told to appeal to the board of management, but there are just not enough classes and not enough teachers.”
She said: “A Sinn Fein led government will funnel the desperately needed funding into our schools in Laois, increasing capacity, trebling the workforce and acquiring the basic necessary resources that our schools have grown accustomed to begging for.
“The funding has always been there. But the political will to use that funding in the right places has been missing in action.”
She vowed: “I aim to change this, and I have the political will to do it”.
