Tommy Broughan (Dublin Bay North, Independent) | Oireachtas source

About an hour ago I chaired a briefing by the Union of Students in Ireland concerning its position paper on the funding of higher education. The student representatives have grave concern that the Minister is strongly considering the third option in the Cassells report of income-contingent loans as a system of funding higher education. They outlined to us forcefully how such a system would badly impact on the lives of students well into the future.

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