Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

As well as that, the Minister absolutely butchered the postgraduate rates. There has been a dramatic regression since 2008 but the Minister very cleverly glossed over all that. This is despite my having asked a very specific question as to where we were in 2008 and where we are today, even allowing for the miserly increases that were given in the budget for 2022–23. We have gone back again to the great ploy that has been employed for ten years: the review. This means the poor students in college in 2021–22 get nothing. Under the current Government, students in 2022–23 will see a little bit of redressing, back to the rates of 2008. If the Minister checks the cost of going to college, he will see there was a significant difference between 2008 and today. Can he outline for me in detail the regression since 2008, as I asked for?

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