Liam Fitzgerald (Fianna Fail)

They must have found a New Labour existence. They must have found strange happenings in the voter participation rates of the middle and upper classes. Perhaps it had nothing to do with those voting patterns.

The free fees initiative contributed nothing to equity of access. It just gave a subsidy to the middle and upper classes and underpinned the elitist nature of third level education in the Republic. These are the clearly stated views of eminent educationalists on this issue.