Seanad debates

Wednesday, 26 March 2003

Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2003: Committee and Remaining Stages.

 

Many are unsure of their position. I have instanced the case to the Minister of a man, two years into his course, who must now make a decision on whether to continue and do his degree and perhaps a postgraduate course later. The Minister said such people were not affected but they are. The abolition of the scheme has unsettled this man and his peer group at a time when they are due to take examinations. Unsettling students on the eve of an examination has a traumatic affect on them. I gave the Minister one example in that regard and there are many others. The man who came to me was deeply concerned about having to return to the social welfare scene. One might say he is still in it but the circumstances are different. He has received enormous support from his family over the last two years and has no other means of supporting his six dependent children.

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