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Ian Paisley in new dig at Peter Robinson over schools
Saturday, 23 October 2010
enlargeFormer DUP leader Ian Paisley has aimed another dig at successor Peter Robinson.
In a newspaper column, the ex-First Minister criticised the high-profile debate on shared education sparked by a speech by Mr Robinson. Lord Bannside also rejected the idea of a commission on the subject — a proposal made in that same speech.
Calling for a single schooling system, Mr Robinson had suggested “a body or commission to bring forward recommendations for a staged process of integration”.
In a News Letter article yesterday, Lord Bannside wrote: “The lively debate concerning education which this week has exercised many is a debate we cannot luxuriate in or afford commissions on, while there presently is not the funding for classroom assistants, for library books, for support teachers, nor indeed before the whole issue of the 11-plus is even sorted.”
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