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‹ Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions

Visitors Gallery and Gaelscoil welcome

Summary

Deputy McDonald welcomes visitors from Gaelscoil Bharra and exchanges light banter with the Taoiseach about the school’s name and Fionnbarra. The chair intervenes briefly, but no substantive issue is raised yet.

We have a full Visitors Gallery. I hope I am allowed a bit of local favouritism to say céad míle fáilte to the páistí from Gaelscoil Bharra. I am sure the Taoiseach will say hello to them also. They were asking me earlier who is my biggest rival and I said I would have to say Micheál Martin. They kind of cheered that on. Cuirim fáilte roimh na paistí agus roimh gach duine eile.

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Were they encouraging Deputy McDonald?

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I think it is best not said.

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What is the name of the Gaelscoil?

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It is Gaelscoil Bharra from Cabra.

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As in Fionnbarra.

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Yes, as in Fionnbarra. Iontach.

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There is a Cork origin so.

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Hang on. It is not a Cork school. The Taoiseach cannot go seizing our schools.

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I studied hagiography a long time ago. The life of Finbarr featured in it.

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