Réada Cronin (Kildare North, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I raise the decision by Maynooth University not to proceed with the student centre, for which a levy was put on students in recent years. This morning, students in the university staged a walkout in protest, as part of its Where’s my Levy campaign. I have had so much contact from students and parents who paid into the levy and from the wider academic community as well who live around Maynooth. They tell me that what the university is suggesting is just not sufficient. I have written to the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, Deputy Harris, personally and asked him to launch an investigation into the decision and to publish his findings. Will the Tánaiste demand that the university commits to deliver the student centre, that the levy would be frozen, and the students would have joint oversight of the fund which is ultimately their money?

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