Thomas Byrne (Meath East, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Last week, Tom Collins, the former president of Dundalk Institute of Technology, said the college used to give old computers to schools and joked that now they are going to ask for them back. Dr. Hourigan is telling us she is afraid of the fire officer. It is an extraordinarily dangerous situation in which to put the future of the nation. The witnesses have set the case out in stark terms that the Government will accept. However, the public also has to accept it.

All of us around this table have been contacted by a primary school this week. They make a huge political impact locally. What we are trying to do with these hearings is to make the impact nationally that there is a crisis. As part of that, where do we find the money that is absolutely needed? I thank the witnesses. Nobody could have set it out better. It has really helped make the case.