No resources for class size reduction, says Dempsey

THE Government has been accused of reneging on an election promise to radically reduce primary class sizes.

Education Minister Noel Dempsey admitted yesterday he did not have the resources to reduce primary school classes to a ratio of 20 pupils to one teacher for the foreseeable future.

The aim was one of the central planks of the FF-PD coalition's programme for government, Fine Gael and Labour claimed yesterday.