Brian Hayes (Dublin South West, Fine Gael)

It is tomfoolery which allows small-minded Ministers to make announcements on school projects days before an election, in the full knowledge that no works will ever take place. The Irish people are sick of Fianna Fáil buying elections with money that they know they do not have.

Why does the Minister for Education and Science continue to pretend that all of the 56 education promises set out in the programme for Government can now be achieved?

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