Rose Conway-Walsh (Mayo, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I will absolutely work in every way I can to ensure that Ukrainians who are coming here and who are very welcome here will have access to further and higher education.

By delaying the publication of the report the Minister is impeding the work of the education committee. The committee has dedicated weeks of hearings on the future of funding of higher education. These hearings were scheduled on the assumption the information would not be withheld and that it would be available. The report is an economic valuation paid for by public money. There is no commercial or privacy consideration to justify delaying it. The Minister is forcing the committee to work in the dark. We have had representative bodies of universities and the technological sector as well as trade unions and student unions all wondering why we have not been provided with the report. It is the most important document for dealing with the current funding in higher education. I and many others working in the sector would appreciate a clear explanation for why this is the case. It would make it much more productive for the committee if we knew what had come back from Europe.

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