Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Independent) | Oireachtas source

It will go through anyway so the debate is academic. We are not talking about €50, we are talking about €150 in the context of raising fees. For the family, it is not €150 but €750. When one combines what the Minister for Education and Skills, Deputy Quinn, is doing and this measure, if the Minister does not believe €150 at the margin changes behaviour, we have a very different understanding of how supply and demand works and how price affects behaviour.