Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance)

Is it not the case that cutting the funding to postgraduate grants is the sharp edge of the disastrous situation over which this Government has presided? This will cut the education level of attainment at the highest level, which we need if this country has any chance of recovering. The Government talks on a regular basis about how we need to make this country favourable for investment and export-led recovery but we are sending out the message that we will have fewer people qualified at the highest level. The people who will not get the chance to reach that level of educational attainment will be those who do not have money. It is always the people who do not have money who get hit.

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