Liam Fitzgerald (Fianna Fail)

We all know why this happened. There is no need for me to spell it out and some of it was well deserved and justified. However, I wish to pay a personal tribute to the Christian Brothers for the monumental contribution they made to the development of Irish education at primary and post-primary level and for helping to bring education to the masses and the remote areas of Ireland, such as the area from which I come.

Ireland, past and present, owes this organisation an enormous debt of gratitude for empowering many generations through education ——