P J Sheehan (Cork South West, Fine Gael)

Perhaps he will be transferred to the Department of Social and Family Affairs following the local elections. I remind the Minister of the epitaph: "Once I wasn't. Then I was. Now I ain't again." The Minister should not let this be his epitaph. If the Deputies opposite vote down this motion and force the schools in Bantry and Schull to sack a teacher, then I will have to agree with Voltaire that common sense is not so common.

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