Seán Fleming (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

In regard to the cash balances, I find it extraordinary that the universities are so well off while the primary and secondary schools are experiencing such cuts. I know they will say they have had cuts, reductions in salaries, reductions in grant support and that student numbers have gone up. That is fine but that cash balance would be the envy of most other State organisations.