Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 29 March 2022
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills
Future Funding of Higher Education: Discussion (Resumed)
Jim O'Callaghan (Dublin Bay South, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source
I thank Dr. Younus. There appears to be a significant correlation between disposable income and having a third level degree. It does not mean that everyone who has a third level degree has a high level of disposable income but, in general, people who have a high level of disposable income have a third level degree. Does that support the proposal Dr. Smyth has put forward here which was also the third option in the Cassells report? It recommended that one come back to try to get people to repay moneys they owed to the State, as a result of receiving an education, after they earn above a certain threshold?
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