and understands better than anyone how to reconcile the interests of employers, employees and other groups to agree a shared agenda for progress. Fianna Fáil also understands that a partnership approach with public sector workers is central to achieving improvements in public services. In government, we have sought to ensure that services are delivered to the citizens who pay for them in a modern and accessible way by public servants who are well rewarded for their work.
sceptical towards state expenditure on education, for example in favour of study fees or private schools