Marc Ó Cathasaigh (Waterford, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

Is there any sense of a class-based system, a scourge we can be thankful to be more or less free from in the Republic of Ireland? Dr. Darmody spoke about Oxbridge and certain families having certain expectations. While I am not saying that there are not families in Ireland that have certain expectations about where their children are going to end up, I think the class system is more ingrained in an English context. I would not expect it to be as ingrained in Northern Ireland. I would expect things to be more egalitarian, as I hope we find here. However, I am not operating on the basis of any great research in saying that.