Stop setting education budget 'artificially low', INTO warns Government

'There will always be budget overruns when the percentage of the national budget set aside for education is lower than what is needed to run our schools properly,' said INTO general secretary John Boyle. Picture: Ray Ryan

Stop setting the budget for education “artificially low” then acting surprised when the figures don’t add up, the Government has been warned.

The message was delivered to Helen McEntee after she made her first address as education minister to the almost 1,000 delegates attending the Irish National Teachers’ Organisation (INTO) annual congress.