At this time of scarce funds one must question whether money is being spent where it should be, namely, in the classroom and whether Irish education has lost its focus. Moreover, despite the warning in 2004 from the OECD not to become managerialist, Irish education has become so, as people avoid the classroom, which is extremely expensive. The important place for them to be is in the classroom with their students. That is where the focus should necessarily be. A poem about some of the restructuring in Irish education was written recently in my own college. It includes the lines: