198. Deputy Joe McHugh asked the Minister for Education and Skills his views on introducing extra support measures for one-teacher schools in the form of a classroom assistant to comply with health and safety regulations, in acknowledging the teaching and administrative burden on the teacher and, furthermore, to acknowledge that parents are willing to continue sending their children to one-teacher schools irrespective of the new threshold for the pupil-teacher ratio, while being mindful of the fact that the threshold of a minimum of 20 pupils for a two-teacher school is significantly higher and affects minority religious schools disproportionately to other schools; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20289/14]

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198. Deputy Joe McHugh asked the Minister for Education and Skills his views on introducing extra support measures for one-teacher schools in the form of a classroom assistant to comply with health and safety regulations, in acknowledging the teaching and administrative burden on the teacher and, furthermore, to acknowledge that parents are willing to continue sending their children to one-teacher schools irrespective of the new threshold for the pupil-teacher ratio, while being mindful of the fact that the threshold of a minimum of 20 pupils for a two-teacher school is significantly higher and affects minority religious schools disproportionately to other schools; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20289/14]

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