Catherine Connolly (Galway West, Independent) | Oireachtas source

My apologies as I have only heard the tail-end of the Minister’s reply so I only caught some of it but I welcome it and I welcome that Dr. Catherine Day’s report is going to be published tomorrow. Does the Minister have any idea of the number of asylum seekers who cannot attend university in Ireland simply because of finances and lack of resources? From a newspaper report I understand that three got places in university but did not come under the criteria.

I appreciate that he made a very welcome change in August 2020 and I thank him for that. There is a long history there in the easing up of restrictions and in making it more humane. It took a pilot project five years ago on third level education and the McMahon report. I know that the restrictions were changed from five to three but my information is that there is a considerable if finite number of people that we could very easily deal with.

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