Charlie McConalogue (Donegal North East, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The process failed on two counts. The first was a failure to deliver grants to students more quickly, as the Minister admits, and the second was a failure to make the process more efficient in its first year. I ask the Minister to give an assurance to students that we will not see a repeat of this next year. We need to learn the lessons of what went wrong in this regard, as it is not the only part of the public service that is being changed and reformed. The fact that this process went so wrong must be investigated, with any assessment published so that it can be examined within the Oireachtas and other Departments can benefit. Will the Minister give a guarantee to students that in so far as it is possible, we will not see a repeat of what happened last year? Will he publish the Department's assessment and analysis of how it got the process wrong and the lessons to be learned from it?

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