Insurance ‘crippling primary schools’

PRIMARY schools are being crippled by spiralling insurance costs which are running at up to six times higher than the figure Education Minister Noel Dempsey gave the Dáil.

An Irish National Teachers' Organisation (INTO) survey of insurance costs in five primary schools shows that schools are paying far more than the estimate given recently in the Dáil by Mr Dempsey.

"The reality is that schools are paying four, five or six times the minister's estimate," said INTO general secretary John Carr.