PM speaks on budget debate today
published: Tuesday | April 26, 2005

PATTERSON

PRIME MINISTER P. J. Patterson will make his contribution to the 2005/2006 Budget Debate today.

One of the areas which Mr. Patterson is expected to address is the vexed issue of cost sharing. In the period leading to the 2002 General Election, the Prime Minister announced that cost sharing would be gradually phased out by 2005.

But the task force report on education, which was released in December last year, recommended that the Govern-ment retain cost sharing. The report stated that the Government should re-examine its intention because some parents were in a position to fund a significant portion of their children's education.