Peter Power (Limerick East, Fianna Fail)

I accept that. It is one of the last points that it contains.

I will make one final point, and I am delighted that Deputy Enright is here to listen to it. Her colleague, Deputy English, made a point about this last night, and he produced a whole pile of figures to support his argument, which I doubted at the time, and about which I questioned him in the Chamber. He suggested that the last time Fine Gael was in power, the Government spent more on education as a percentage of gross domestic product, and he produced graphs and so on to show that. The rainbow coalition spent 4.5% of gross domestic product on education. On the back of a large increase in GDP, this Government is spending 5.3%, which represents an increase of almost 20%. We can argue about class sizes and investment in resources, but the Government's focus in the past seven years has been on pumping a huge amount of additional resources into education and I compliment the Minister on her sterling defence of the motion last night.

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