McKay welcomes extra funding for pre-schools

SIR - I'd like to welcome the extra funding made available by the Education Minister, Caitríona Ruane, to help boost the provision of pre-school places for the forthcoming year. It will also help meet the high demand for these places that has arisen this year.

Pre-schooling is a stage of education that many teacher and parents feel benefits the early development of our children. To have an extra 1.3 million available in support of this phase of education at a time of tight budgets will certainly be seen as a ringing endorsement of the good work that this sector carries out.

Sinn Fin MLA Daith McKay