Michael McGrath (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The report and discussion we had at Cabinet on Tuesday were positive. There is a need for additional places in the areas identified in the Higher Education Authority, HEA, report. It is now for the HEA, the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science and the other line Departments that the Deputy referenced, primarily the Departments of Health and Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth, to develop a similar exercise in respect of the need for additional places in the further education and third level sectors. Those Departments can do that as well.

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