Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 8 February 2017

Committee on Budgetary Oversight

Macroeconomic Outlook: IBEC

2:00 pm

Photo of John LahartJohn Lahart (Dublin South West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I am sorry to interrupt Mr. O'Brien but the biggest challenge right now - it was in the newspapers recently - is health and travel insurance for international students who come here. Instead of costing a token €100 per year, they want international students to take out the same kind of private health insurance that any of us would have. This is despite the fact that, in most cases, if international students get seriously ill they are cared for until they are ready to be repatriated. This is a big issue coming down the track and we need to get involved in it. That is a big issue aside from accommodation.

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