Shane Cassells (Meath West, Fianna Fail)
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Okay. I accept there was a funding increase, but what was allocated this year was not what was called for. The witness said the Department and the Minister made a call. They did. There were funding reductions in the seven-year period up to 2015. We also saw increased enrolment in those years as well. Those were achieved by internal efficiencies, cost-cutting and so forth. What will suffer and regress if the Minister and whatever Government of the day do not commit to what was set out, given what the witness responded to Deputy Madigan on the question of the primary school figures decreasing?

We have seen the demographics for the projected 26% increase in full-time enrolments in higher education up to 2030.