Christina Finn

But look...

And maybe public opinion has changed.

It seems to be something that comes around every, you know, five to 10 years where we have discussion.

But, you know, some polling suggests that people are open to it.

What do you think, Jennifer?

Yeah, I think it is unfair that things play out this way.

But unfortunately, it feels like this is the way budget wrangling takes place.

I wouldn't be surprised if the money is found somewhere down the back of the couch, albeit that this is to do with the £646 million budget.

Department of Education deficit and a levy being imposed on departments to come up with the money to fill that.

But we often see, I think, one say from the budget, you know, discussions like this, you know, question marks being put over, you know, commitments that has been mentioned in programme for government.

you know, perhaps putting out the scaries there that this might not happen.

And then when it comes to actually going into the room with the finance minister and having those discussions, such as the outrage that you can point to over the last number of months, you couldn't possibly, you know, row back on that decision and something comes out of the bag at the end of the day.