Further and Higher Education
Dail Éireann — 2024-02-27
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Bernard Durkan (FG), Kildare North

I believe it was John Kenneth Galbraith, the famous American economist, who first thought up this idea. He proved the point that utilising the skills and experience that were already available could reap benefit to the economy tenfold. He did not expect those who were retired to carry out a long day’s work, as they had previously experienced, and he suggested that they should take longer holidays and so on, but keep themselves refreshed and renewed in what they knew best, so they were in a position to hand on to the new generation and the new public and private system, wherever that might be.
Does the Minister believe he can take inspiration from that? We will talk about him later as well.

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