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

Spending in all of these areas in increasing. The budget for education will be €11 billion next year, which is the largest budget ever for education. The Deputy's performance today once again demonstrates the dilemma the Government faces. We are being told, perhaps correctly, by the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council that we need to rein in spending but every time I come in here all I hear from the Opposition, and the only thing on which it is united, is that we should spend more and more.

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