Rose Conway-Walsh (Mayo, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I move amendment No. 132:

In page 57, to delete lines 1 to 3 and substitute the following:

"(a) the policy of the institution for increasing access, participation, and course completion, by students in priority groups and persons,".

It is important that we expand our understanding of equality in higher education beyond access. I welcome that this has been done in some parts of the Bill. Amendment No. 132 continues in that vein. Often, one of the main forms of discrimination, socioeconomic discrimination, is overlooked. It would be positive to include a specific reference to this in the section, as proposed in amendment No. 133.