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This week, Kilkenny Education Centre played host to a visit from An Tánaiste, and Minister for Education and Skills, Mary Coughlan TD.

The Tanaiste and Minister for Education and Skills, Mary Coughlan was in Kilkenny this week where she defended the government’s record on spending on education.

The Presentation College in Athenry has received funding to convert a squash court on its grounds into two additional classrooms.

The proposal to introduce school bus charges of €500 per annum for primary school children who are currently entitled to free travel and an additional €200 per secondary school child has been condemned.

“I might have appointed somebody but I appointed them because they were friends, not because of anything they had given me...”

The Department of Education and Science’s Summer Works Scheme will see 57 schools in Mayo benefit from minor repair works during the summer break.

Some 37 Westmeath schools are to benefit from small and medium scale building works this summer under a €122 million investment announced on Monday by the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills, Mary Coughlan.

Teachers’ unions meeting in Galway and elsewhere this week were deeply divided on the issue of the controversial public service pay and reform deal with a small majority at the INTO conference accepting the deal while both the TUI and ASTI delegates rejected it.

To describe An Taoiseach Brian Cowen’s cabinet reshuffle as cautious would be to give it a gravitas it does not deserve. It was simply the work of an uninspired and dreadfully uninspiring leader.

I wrote recently of the urgent need for competence in Government. Commercial competence gained through experience at the coalface is essential to successfully negotiate the current economic challenges. In any major public organisation the people at the helm are appointed on ability gained through experience of working at a high level in business.