Pearse Doherty (Donegal South West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

The Minister has said a number of times that the imposition is €150 over this period of three years, whereas the imposition on a family with a child going to university or college is €750. The decision to be made is whether the Finance Bill will try to lift some of that burden, so that blame for this imposition should not be only on the Minister, Deputy Quinn, given collective Cabinet responsibility. I am asking the Minister for Finance to release some of the burden imposed by this charge of €750. By 2015, the difference will be €750 and parents who make a decision in 2015 to send a child to college will be faced with the additional burden of finding €750.