Cecilia Keaveney (Fianna Fail)

-----and how we achieve it and how we can afford it is a much more important debate that we need to have.

I call on the Leader to ask the Minister for Education and Skills to examine an issue which I raised last year. It is sensible that when people fill out forms for going to college they would fill out forms for grant applications at the same time so all of their administration happens together and they can then focus on academic matters. This happened a bit and I would like it to continue. It would ease the pressure on VECs, local authorities and everyone else processing these applications at present. By next year we should not have a situation whereby grants are processed but then sit for a month prior to a batch of grants being given out, as is happening at present. Issues in administration need to be dealt with to ease the situation for students.