John Lahart (Dublin South West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Minister of State for going into detail on this. I recognise the efforts she is taking to strengthen this area. It badly needs it from an international reputational and a student point of view. There are some gaps here, however, which I would like the Minister of State to acknowledge.

For example, students may be in South America and may have applied for a course and then they may hear the college has closed, and this seems to happen quite often. If they have paid a fee, and part of that fee includes insurance, they will be reimbursed that fee. Under the proposed fund, if that college closes and the sinking fund is in place, the college-----

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