Seán Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

On a personal note, I was born in the early 1940s and have seen a huge transition in Ireland as a result of improvements in education. I lived in the days when my parents had to pay for me to attend second level school, never mind third level. In my lifetime education has been a huge answer to Ireland's many problems. I firmly believe that if one asks people for money for a given thing such as education programmes in Africa, it would be easier to get them to agree to an increase in the aid budget to 0.7% of GDP rather than simply asking them to agree to move from a figure of 0.3% to 0.7%. Does Mr. Drummond get my point?