Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I am not in a position to make commitments about the forthcoming budget at this time. What I can say is that we have increased education spending by €1 billion over the past two years.

We will continue to increase education spending into the next budget but it is not always possible to do everything in the one year. There only is a certain amount of money available.

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