Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour) | Oireachtas source

Deputy Martin should at least afford me the courtesy of listening to the answer I am giving him. The Minister for Education and Skills has already made it clear through the Higher Education Authority, to the universities and the institutes of technology that no student whose grant has not yet come through should be disadvantaged in terms of participating in college, attending classes or lectures, doing exams and so on. Let us kill that issue of students having to leave college once and for all. That is not going to happen-----

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