Aideen Hayden (Labour) | Oireachtas source

I welcome the Leader's commitment to hold a debate next week on flooding. It is welcome that a number of Ministers, including the Taoiseach and the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government, Deputy Alan Kelly, yesterday met members of the insurance industry to see what could be done about insuring people who found themselves distressed as a result of flooding.

I raise an issue about a recent HEA report which is of enormous concern, given that we are now heading into CAO applications time. One in six students does not progress from first to second year in all areas of third level education, including ITs and universities.