Pádraig O'Sullivan (Cork North Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

While I know the Minister has been in situfor only a period of months, this issue has been dragging on for a number of years. The Commission was first asked to help with this work back in October 2018. The expert group started its work in 2014 to identify and consider issues related to the long-term sustainable funding of higher education in Ireland and to identify funding options for the future. The programme for Government commits to developing a long-term sustainable funding model for higher level education in collaboration with the sector and informed by recent and ongoing research and analysis. This work, which is an extension of the Cassells report of 2016, will be vital in achieving this. In some ways this report will dictate many of the Minister's actions in reforming the system in the longer term. Following the completion of this work, will the Minister provide us with an indication of what will happen next? Can we expect to see this work published to inform future debate?

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