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

The Minister has not told me the rationale for it, or commented on the inequity it presents for parents whose children are forced to go abroad to study. It is the same expenditure - even more expenditure in many cases. If they could be facilitated in the State, they would be living in the State. This is also a time when we are trying to encourage North-South and South-North student mobility. It surely flies in the face of that.