complianz-gdpr domain was triggered too early. This is usually an indicator for some code in the plugin or theme running too early. Translations should be loaded at the init action or later. Please see Debugging in WordPress for more information. (This message was added in version 6.7.0.) in /data/sites/web/michaelfitzmauriceie/www/wp-includes/functions.php on line 6114I recently asked Minister for Education and Skills, Jan O’Sullivan, in view of the impact of the Government\u2019s decision in December 2011 to change the ex-quota status of the role of the guidance counsellor in second level schools, if she had plans to reverse this cut in the next budget.<\/p>\n
I have expressed his disappointment that the Minister’s reply offered little hope for hard-pressed Post-Primary schools who have had to deal with the serious cut-back. The Minister’s reply,\u00a0while acknowledging “that bringing guidance with quota is challenging for schools” still has not signalled any commitment to re-instate the “ex-quota” role of the Guidance Counsellor in our schools. I recently asked Minister for Education and Skills, Jan O’Sullivan, in view of the impact of the Government\u2019s decision in December 2011 to change the ex-quota status of the role…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-635","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-press-releases"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelfitzmaurice.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelfitzmaurice.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelfitzmaurice.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelfitzmaurice.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelfitzmaurice.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=635"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/michaelfitzmaurice.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":637,"href":"https:\/\/michaelfitzmaurice.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635\/revisions\/637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelfitzmaurice.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelfitzmaurice.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelfitzmaurice.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n“Many schools have described this cut as the cruellest of all cuts and they point out that never before was there a greater need for pastoral care in our Post primary schools. It is unfair to ask that the guidance role be spread among the whole staff unit as this can only lead to a disjointed service instead of the students having access to somebody they can trust and who has the expertise and the time to deal with their problems”<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"