{"id":1903,"date":"2022-09-22T12:51:12","date_gmt":"2022-09-22T11:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.socialdemocrats.ie\/time-to-make-education-genuinely-free\/"},"modified":"2022-09-22T12:51:12","modified_gmt":"2022-09-22T11:51:12","slug":"time-to-make-education-genuinely-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.socialdemocrats.ie\/ga\/time-to-make-education-genuinely-free\/","title":{"rendered":"Time to make education genuinely free"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>School-related costs putting household budgets under severe pressure<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Radical reform is required in next week\u2019s budget to make education in Ireland genuinely free, according to Social Democrats TD Gary Gannon.<\/p>\n<p>Deputy Gannon, who is the party\u2019s spokesperson on Education, said:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cParents throughout the country know that the concept of free education is nothing more than a myth, with school-related costs putting household budgets under severe pressure.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the Social Democrats\u2019 alternative budget, we have proposed a range of measures which, if adopted by the Government, would see a genuine free education system.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis can be done by fully funding schoolbooks and other classroom resources, as well as increasing the capitation rate to eliminate the need for voluntary donations. In addition, we want to see all fees abolished for school transport schemes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo achieve this, we estimate it would cost an extra \u20ac113m and \u20ac140m in primary and second level schools respectively \u2013 this would represent just a 2 percent increase on the overall \u20ac12bn education budget for 2022.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are seeking an extension of hot meals to all DEIS primary schools, along with a 20 percent increase in the programme budget to improve food quality.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInvestment will be required to reduce class sizes in our primary schools. The average class size in Ireland is 23.3 pupils, compared with an EU average of 20. The Government should aim to reduce this by one in each of the next four years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere should be an ambition to phase out third level fees over time, starting with a \u20ac500 reduction from September 2023.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf our proposals are taken on board by the Government, Budget 2023 could have a transformative effect on the lives of families with school-going children who live on the margins.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>September 22, 2022<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>School-related costs putting household budgets under severe pressure Radical reform is required in next week\u2019s budget to make education in Ireland genuinely free, according to Social Democrats TD Gary Gannon. Deputy Gannon, who is the party\u2019s spokesperson on Education, said: \u201cParents throughout the country know that the concept of free education is nothing more than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1702,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[218,316,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-gary-gannon","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Time to make education genuinely free - Social Democrats<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.socialdemocrats.ie\/time-to-make-education-genuinely-free\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"ga_IE\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Time to make education genuinely free - Social Democrats\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"School-related costs putting household budgets under severe pressure Radical reform is required in next week\u2019s budget to make education in Ireland genuinely free, according to Social Democrats TD Gary Gannon. 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