Rónán Mullen (Independent)

I support Senator O'Toole's proposed amendment to the Order of Business. I, too, believe we need a debate on education cuts, perhaps as part of a wider debate about where cuts are being targeted. If the horrific murder of Aidan O'Kane shows us anything, it is that there is a decline in social and moral capital in society. We need seriously to debate how we as a community are to address that decline. It is linked with how we order our fiscal priorities. The last thing we should attack, for example, is education where the next generation is formed.