Gerry Adams (Louth, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I welcome that the Taoiseach does not find this acceptable but the head of the body charged with processing these grants stated today that the system is working. As the system is patently not working, will the Taoiseach, in addition to ensuring sufficient resources are provided, ask the Minister, Deputy Quinn, to contact the Higher Education Authority to ensure the students caught up in this mess are not penalised by their universities or institutes of technology? Some students have not been allowed to access libraries and other necessary elements of the education system.

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