Jim Walsh (Fianna Fail)

——are not up to the required standard and that is unfair to the children who go through their classes and do not get an education as a result. It is also unfair to the teachers who do not have the necessary skills and are perhaps working under stress. There should be a mechanism to allow them to leave a profession for which they are unsuited.

There was a highly dangerous incident this week at a football match in Europe in which the safety of spectators was put at risk. I hope appropriate security measures will be in place for the game in Croke Park on Saturday evening, especially to avoid a repeat of the English bringing armoured cars and machine guns, as they did on the last occasion they came to that place.