Mary White (Fianna Fail)

I am a republican socialist by nature. I watched closely the Fine Gael Government of the 1980s. I feel very sorry for my colleagues on the Opposition benches because their leader cannot afford to blow it any more. I said to my colleagues today that if Fianna Fáil is given a chance in the next 12 months, we will be back as the leaders in government. This country's success to date has been due to the pragmatic vision of Fianna Fáil. Let us take for example, Donogh O'Malley, the visionary in education in the 1960s who gave free secondary education. We must raise the standards of mathematics and science. The universities are half asleep. Dr. Barrett said we need UCD and Trinity College to be like Stanford and MIT-----