Thomas Byrne (Meath East, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I will not dwell too much on this. It is an issue I have highlighted on numerous occasions in the past and, quite frankly, the same issues remain. There is general underfunding of the third level sector. What plans does the Minister have to increase funding from the State's purse? Even if we look back at the Cassells report, whatever option is chosen at whatever point in time in the future still will require substantial extra resources from the Government.