Ms Anne O'Mahoney:

Specifically on that point, Deputy O'Sullivan referred to the millennium development goals, MDGs. I believe the MDGs got bums on seats. Governments around the world made decisions to have free access to primary education for all. That was part of many of their stated goals but they never invested in developing the education that required it to happen. There were classrooms going from 10 kids to 100 kids but with no improvement in the quality. Kids came out of the school system with no better education. It requires a big sea change in realistic investment to produce a quality education.