President Michael D Higgins paid tribute to former Minister for Education Niamh Bhreathnach saying she had left “an extraordinary legacy of educational reform”
Former Minister for Education Niamh Bhreathnach has been commended for her dedication to education in Ireland after her death at 77.
In a statement, President Higgins said: “It is with a deep sense of sadness that so many people, former colleagues and particularly those who will have benefited from the inclusive reforms she initiated in terms of our education system, will have learnt of the death of Niamh Bhreathnach. “Niamh was the first Labour politician to hold the post of Minister for Education, something which had historical significance in its own right. In her time in office she would go on to leave an extraordinary legacy of educational reform.”
Ms Bhreathnach taught Froebel in Cook Street in the inner city before running a thriving remedial practice until her 1992 election to Dáil Éireann. Ms Bhreathnach is linked to the Irish University Act of 1997 and the elimination of third-level undergraduate tuition.After removing fees, successive governments increased student contributions to €3,000.
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