Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

Should they pick up the tab? Is it fair that our young people, students with special needs and those entering third level education should pay the bill for the gambling of speculators, financiers and bondholders that the Taoiseach and Angela Merkel are insisting they pay?

I ask the Taoiseach to tell those teachers, so they do not have to come out in protest and can concentrate on what they want to do, that he will reverse this unfairness and that the Minister sitting beside him, Deputy Quinn, will give a commitment there will be no further education cuts hitting primary, secondary or third level in the forthcoming budget? Can he give that commitment to us and to those who will be on the streets today?

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