Noel Dempsey (Meath, Fianna Fail)

We also dramatically increased the number and diversity of places available, helping to deliver on what international evidence consistently shows is a key driver in increasing participation rates.

In the face of this consistent and ongoing record, all we have heard from the self-described champions of the disadvantaged is a demand that we should not even look at funding policies at third level. They have announced that they will mount the barricades in defence of the right of the most affluent sections of society to receive everything for free. The party of Connolly, led by a former member of a far-left, Moscow-supported party, is against—

(Interruptions).