Labour pledge to increase education funding by €140m to ensure 'every child gets a fair start in life'

Labour has pledged to increase education funding by €140 million while reducing classroom sizes in a bid to “ensure that every child gets a fair start in life”.

At its education policy launch at party headquarters in Dublin, its spokesman on the brief Senator Aodhán Ó Ríordáin said Labour, as indicated in its manifesto, is seeking to make primary education “genuinely free of charge”.