Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein)

Those very families the Taoiseach describes - working families and families on middle incomes - are now left in a situation where the Taoiseach cannot answer a straightforward question. It is a question they need an answer to now because they have to plan their finances for their young people going to university and college and accessing the places he has described. It is incredible that he cannot answer a straightforward question. Is it €2,000 or €3,000? I invite him again to answer that question directly because it was his Minister who raised this issue. It is the Government which has avoided answering a straightforward question for nine whole days. Those families, the parents and students, deserve a straightforward answer from the Taoiseach today. Will he please give it?

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