Paschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I know. There are many commitments in the programme for Government and I have to work with my government colleagues to try to deliver as many of them as possible. That is what we will be doing.

On education and skills, it is a fair criticism of what we have been doing of late. Over the past number of years, we have said that we must account for demographics, but what are the figures for that? I have tried to make figures for demographics available to the committee. As regards education and what that is used for, I cannot give the answer now but I will give it to the committee. I know what the policy content of it will be, which is more teachers to maintain our pupil-teacher ratio. Most of it, if not all, will be current expenditure and will be for more teachers. Some of it will be capital expenditure to build new classrooms and schools, again to deliver the pupil-teacher ratio.