Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 13 June 2013
Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills
Vote 27 - Education and Skills (Revised)
12:05 pm
Ruairi Quinn (Dublin South East, Labour) | Oireachtas source
Speaking from memory, many of these were existing scholarships that had no connection with the income status of the recipient. They were on the basis of "first in Ireland" in this or that course and it involved a relatively small or modest amount of money which we decided to allocate to students from disadvantaged backgrounds to address the imbalance in our very unequal society.
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