Brendan Griffin (Kerry South, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

It is highly regrettable that any cuts have to be made in the education sector, but the party opposite which tabled this motion left us in such a deplorable state that cuts unfortunately have to be made. We need to prioritise and make sure those cuts do not have as great a negative impact as they perhaps could. In the 2008-2010 era, when the nature of the situation finally dawned on Fianna Fáil and the Independents who supported them, including one Independent from my constituency, we saw savage cuts in the education sector.

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