Ned O'Sullivan (Fianna Fail)

The Senator has a hard neck considering the track record in education of her party in Government in recent years. I was a primary teacher in the famous hardship government of 1973 to 1977. Anyone who was involved in education in that horrendous period will not easily forget it. I was also a teacher at secondary level in the Garret era and it was a case of the last one out of the school was to turn off the lights.