Mary White (Carlow-Kilkenny, Green Party)

Good fiscal management, as the Opposition always tells us, must take into account the economic climate. The Opposition can be sure we are spending more on new service developments than it would.

We will hear the Opposition say little about what the Government is delivering for primary education throughout the country, day in, day out. We will not hear it speak about the €586 million being spent this year on the school buildings programme, including the completion of work on 48 large-scale primary schools projects——

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