Michael D Higgins (Galway West, Labour)

-----and damage the National University of Ireland degree brand internationally is outrageous. My last point is that some university presidents feel they should be CEOs. One of them might have the ear of the Minister more than the graduates of the National University of Ireland. It is one thing for us to be producing tens of thousands of unemployed graduates; it is another for the Minister for Education and Science to announce he proposes to devalue their degrees without coming to Parliament.

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