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- Student Fees: Motion [Private Members] (8 Jul 2025)
Pearse Doherty: No, we did not.
- Student Fees: Motion [Private Members] (8 Jul 2025)
Deputy James Lawless: We have led the way on every major expansion of education in Ireland. From the driving transformative ambition of Patrick Hillery to the unprecedented step change of free secondary school education under Donogh O'Malley and the innovation of the Taoiseach, Deputy Micheál Martin, in establishing a dedicated Department of further and higher education in the first...
- Student Fees: Motion [Private Members] (8 Jul 2025)
Louise O'Reilly: Nobody used those words.
- Student Fees: Motion [Private Members] (8 Jul 2025)
James Lawless: It fails to see its real role in our society and our economy. At its heart, my Department is a services Ministry, but it is also much more. It is an economic Ministry and an enabler of everything we want to do. The challenges we are facing, including global trade uncertainty, digital disruption, AI, the green transition and climate change, all demand we lead with the talent, science and...
- Student Fees: Motion [Private Members] (8 Jul 2025)
(Interruptions).
- Student Fees: Motion [Private Members] (8 Jul 2025)
James Lawless: We can laugh all we like but let us think about how this came about.
- Student Fees: Motion [Private Members] (8 Jul 2025)
Louise O'Reilly: Will it be €2,000 or €3,000? There is a question. Will the Minister give us a straight answer?
- Student Fees: Motion [Private Members] (8 Jul 2025)
James Lawless: We have a duty to be upfront and honest with citizens and to deal in good faith.
- Student Fees: Motion [Private Members] (8 Jul 2025)
Louise O'Reilly: Will it be €2,000 or €3,000? It is a straight question.
- Student Fees: Motion [Private Members] (8 Jul 2025)
Verona Murphy: The Minister did not interrupt you, Deputy.
- Student Fees: Motion [Private Members] (8 Jul 2025)
Louise O'Reilly: He invited the question.
- Student Fees: Motion [Private Members] (8 Jul 2025)
James Lawless: We do not gain anything from avoiding those questions. Whether in a radio interview or anywhere else, I have always been straight with people. This is not a policy decision. Deputy O'Reilly can wave her fingers all she likes.
- Student Fees: Motion [Private Members] (8 Jul 2025)
Louise O'Reilly: Is it €2,000 or €3,000?
- Student Fees: Motion [Private Members] (8 Jul 2025)
James Lawless: Ceann Comhairle, I am trying to speak. I did not interrupt you, Deputy O'Reilly. This is not a policy decision or a move to reallocate moneys. It is not a decision of any kind. It is not a decision at all.
- Student Fees: Motion [Private Members] (8 Jul 2025)
Pearse Doherty: It is a policy decision.
- Student Fees: Motion [Private Members] (8 Jul 2025)
Louise O'Reilly: What was the Minister doing on the radio?
- Student Fees: Motion [Private Members] (8 Jul 2025)
James Lawless: This is a straight and sincere statement of budgetary challenges as we approach this year's budget. That is what it is, pure and simple.
- Student Fees: Motion [Private Members] (8 Jul 2025)
Pearse Doherty: Not having a cost-of-living package is a policy decision.
- Student Fees: Motion [Private Members] (8 Jul 2025)
James Lawless: The once-off measures, which were welcome-----
- Student Fees: Motion [Private Members] (8 Jul 2025)
Louise O'Reilly: The cost-of-living crisis is over.