With regard to my next point, Deputy Ring and I have some private debates. The vulnerable should be looked after but any euro spent, because of fraud, on those who are not vulnerable means the vulnerable lose out. The same applies in education. Free education does not mean free education for everybody. It means a certain proportion of people cannot get educated because, while they may have no fees to pay, they cannot get the grant they may need because there is only a limited amount of funding in the budget.

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