Tom Shehan (Fine Gael)

I am stating what I have seen in my parish where parents pass the two-teacher schools and bring their children to the four-teacher and eight-teacher schools for greater inclusion, team games, sports and the quality of the education they receive. That is what people have told me and I am relaying it to the House.

As I said, the Minister does not want to do this but savings must be made. These savings must be extracted from 20% of the budget, which is unfortunate. However, we must ask why the Minister must do this.