Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The Tánaiste and the Minister, Deputy Quinn, shamelessly used the students of Ireland to help them get into power. Once they were in power, they discarded the students and broke every solemn pledge given to them. There is no point in the Minister nodding his head. He signed the pledge in ink. It was a scandalous, cynical election pledge that meant nothing. It meant nothing to him to make it and it meant nothing to him to break it. This is my fundamental point. There is no use in the Tánaiste trying to blame anyone else for the disastrous implementation of the online grant administration system. It is the Minister's baby. He announced it in June to the effect that it would be fail-safe. Up to 50,000 students are awaiting decisions. This is unprecedented and unacceptable. The snail's place progress to which the Tánaiste alluded in his reply-----

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