Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)

Access to the college from those areas has increased enormously by virtue of its location and good education access office. The best way for students to get into it, as full participants, as opposed to merely accessing the facility, is by promoting an end to educational disadvantage and, through the education access office, third level grants, top-up grants and all those provisions which need to be further improved. The proposed amendments would not add anything to the functions of the agency or the schedule as set out.

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