Ruairi Quinn (Dublin South East, Labour) | Oireachtas source

All of those measures have been looked at and will no doubt be looked again and those cases will be made but I am charged with answering questions relating to education and am trying to make the case that in a budget in round figures of €8 billion, I must look for a figure of €44 million and possibly an additional figure.

Returning to the point raised by Deputy McConalogue when I was asked where I could find that money, I presume it will have to come from within my own budget. I indicated that the only area that had money of that order and scale where one could do it without a range of other things happening was the PTR but that was by way of illustration. I said that to find that kind of money, the PTR is an obvious place where one would start to look. That is what I said and what I intended to convey. No decision has been taken yet in respect of the budget for 2014.

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