School funding

Dempsey’s threats put lives at risk.

It would appear that this country has entered an era of governance by omerta, as expressed by the barely concealed threat to parents by Education Minister Noel Dempsey yesterday.

At a press conference to announce details of next year’s building programme for schools, the minister had the audacity to infer that where parents protest about the condition of the school their children are attending, financial sanctions will be imposed on that school.