Joanna Tuffy (Dublin Mid West, Labour)
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Before the Minister replies on that, I asked whether more could be done to get funding from the Department's top fund for our third level sector. The ESF funding was very important in the 1980s and 1990s. ESF funding of courses meant many more people could go to college. That was the start of free education for many people who might not otherwise have gone to college. Could funding from something like the youth guarantee be channelled into the Department of Education and Skills or is there any funding available similar to that which used to be available through the ESF funding?