Eileen Flynn (Independent)
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I want to be clear that every single child, no matter what their background or class, deserves equal access to education. I will never say that I want to put upper-class people down or anything of the sort.

It is actually about giving all the children a hand up. That is something I say a lot in having that equal access. It is good that schools and the education system around teacher training is changing somewhat. They are moving in St. Patrick's teacher training college to include the Yellow Flag programme, educating people around the Traveller community, the Roma community, refugees, migrants and so on. It is for all children but we need to include all those children. That is my point.