Seán Crowe (Dublin South West, Sinn Fein)

Has the Minister of State carried out an assessment on the impact this will have on the number of young people taking up a postgraduate course? I heard the point of the Minister of State about people on low incomes but in many cases people are in a grey area, which presents a difficulty. It will make it more difficult for people to go down the road of postgraduate study. Everyone accepts that. Does the Minister of State have any idea how many people will be unable to go on to further education? Has this been taken into account in the costings of this measure? There is also a human cost in terms of how it will affect people.

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