Fianna Fáil call for end to ‘voluntary’ school payments as pupils 'being poverty shamed'

Future increases in school budgets should be linked to enforcing the voluntary nature of any contributions from families to running costs, Fianna Fáil’s education spokesman Thomas Byrne has said.

Fianna Fáil call for end to ‘voluntary’ school payments as pupils 'being poverty shamed'

By Niall Murray, Irish Examiner Education Correspondent

Future increases in school budgets should be linked to enforcing the voluntary nature of any contributions from families to running costs, Fianna Fáil’s education spokesman Thomas Byrne has said.

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