Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour)

What the Minister had to say was interesting. He approved of every piece of largesse by Government in recent years. The only thing he did not approve of was the notion that working class children, whose parents did not have a high income, should look a well-off person's children in the eye as they walked in the gates of Trinity College and had free access to university education. The Minister said that looking back he felt free third-level tuition access was wrong.

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