Batt O'Keeffe (Cork North West, Fianna Fail)

The Deputy has asked me a question and I should like to be allowed the opportunity to reply to it.

Deputy Quinn is a former Minister for Finance, a very responsible position and I have always said he did an excellent job. At that time, as a Deputy who served in Government with him, I recall Deputy Quinn asking various Departments to prioritise. In this instance, looking back on the Cromien report, can Deputy Quinn say that the decision to set up the examination commission was a bad one? Can he not say that the position we took by setting up and putting in place the special education commission was a good one? Does he believe that all of the important outstanding items mentioned by Cromien have been put in place? The Deputy has a difficulty with one issue.

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