Trevor Ó Clochartaigh (Sinn Fein)

The Minister should come into the Seanad for a debate. I note there is considerable expertise among Members in respect of the third level sector and it would be important to discuss third level funding. There should be debate on how much State funding is going into the sector and how much of it is being used to pay for fees for children of the staff and so on. There also should be debate on when the fees of those at the top end of the scale will be capped, to facilitate rolling back some of the cutbacks that have been introduced.