Ryanair chief executive says there aren’t enough TDs from private sector
Ryanair’s Michael O’Leary has doubled down on controversial comments he made about teachers serving as TDs and suggested a resulting “pile on” from “unions, Sinn Féin and all the left wing tree-huggers” means he “must have said something right.”At the launch, he said that “in Peter we have a candidate who comes from the private sector which is absolutely vital. The Dáil is full of teachers. There is nothing wrong with teachers.
Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald said the comments were “completely inappropriate” and added that for teachers to be “jeered and demeaned” in the way they were was “unacceptable”. “This country is facing enormous challenges over the next decade, where the population is going to rise from five to six million people,” he said.
“I think teachers do a great job in the classroom, but I’m not sure that teachers in the Dáil are necessarily the best people to deliver the kind of change and enterprise we need.” “I think Catherine Martin will be far better off back in the classroom doing the valuable work that teachers do and as far away from the reins of Government or making decisions, where I think she’s clearly failed.”
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