While launching the Dept of Education’s initiative to provide laptops to classrooms, Minister Batt O’Keefe referred to the current healthy state of the Department of Education’s budget. The overall capital budget of €614m means that the €22m spent on this scheme will only be 2% of that budget. Not only that, but his Department has made savings of 14% (= €85m plus) this past year.
Remember that our Gaelcholáiste will cost about €1.5-2m at most. That’s eh… 0.24% of the total budget or 1.7% of the savings made this year.
Ah no, that’s way too much.