Joe O'Toole (Independent)

Just as the teachers had forgotten that Fine Gael did not want to pay them their benchmarking, the party seems to be again determined to stop members of the profession from voting for them. I look forward to a debate on the issue from a different point of view.

The Joint Committee on Finance and the Public Service was prevented yesterday from having a discussion on decentralisation. I do not understand why. We should have the debate in this House.