Damien English (Meath West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I am not even going there. I am merely saying let us face reality here. There was €30 billion missing, but matters are improving and there are more taxes coming in. This will give us the opportunity to do more in education as we want to do, but we must face facts. The funding was not there to continue what we would have liked to have done and that was why there were changes.

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