"Families need to put by about €1,195 for a primary school child, and €1,500 for a second-level child.
"Political careers have been forged on less than getting involved at parents associations and councils and all that kind of thing.The back-to-school clothing and footwear allowance is going up. "Alternatively your local TD, your local health centre, Citizens Information, will all be able to help you with that"."In DEIS schools in particular, there's an expansion to include an additional 60,000 children from September in the School Meals Programme."All schools now have been given resources, for many years, to have a book rental scheme in place."A lot of the time it comes down to just not having people to run it... and that's really parents.
"I think honestly for a lot of parents, I think this is going to be the year where staggered payments for things have to be tolerated by schools.
sinead_ryan No 'likely' about it, it already is!
sinead_ryan Thanks to fffgg we are third class citizens in our own country
sinead_ryan Increase wages!!!