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Sinn Féin councillor Thérèse Ruane has voiced her serious concerns at downgrading of physical education in the school curriculum and has described plans to reduce the time allocated to physical education as a retrograde step which will have a serious negative impact on the health of young people and warns that any such moves must be stopped in their tracks.

Five hundred additional posts are to be created in schools to cope with a substantial increase in demand for resource teaching hours.

Deputy Robert Troy has said any attempt to force the amalgamation of small schools in Westmeath must be resisted.

Primary schools across County Galway are falling into “unmanageable debt” due to cuts introduced by Education Minister Ruairí Quinn, particularly the scrapping of the minor works grant.

With the SUSI debacle leavings thousands of Galway students still waiting for their grant applications to be processed, a local TD has called on the Education Minister to “sort out” the issue.

Action has been demanded from the Education Minister following confirmation that almost 2,000 Mayo students are still waiting for their student grants to be processed.

Local TD Denis Naughten has described as “totally unacceptable” the situation where only 6 per cent of applications made through the new centralised SUSI online processing system for student grants have been approved.

Galway schools needing rebuilding and refurbishment should be included in the €2 billion stimulus package announced by the Government this week.

Mayo Fianna Fáil TD Dara Calleary has repeated a call on the Education Minister to reconsider proposed changes to the third level grant system that will discriminate against thousands of farmers and self employed workers across the west.

Mayo Fianna Fáil TD Dara Calleary has demanded an explanation from the Education Minister Ruairí Quinn as to why disadvantaged schools in Mayo were left out of a review of DEIS cuts this year.