Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages
Dail Éireann — 2022-06-22
============================================================

Simon Harris (FG), Wicklow

The Deputy might do that, but that is for a different debate.
I think we agree on this. I know we both believe education is a public good which means it should be funded through the public purse. We already have a levy on employers who pay into the national training fund. We have a contribution fee which I want to see reduced. My thoughts on that are well known and I am working through that process now. We have made decisions. While I am not referring to the Deputy, some had this romantic notion that the Cassells report was sitting there and why could someone not just do something about it. The Cassells report set out options. We picked our option, which is a publicly funded higher education system with lower student charges.

---

Source: Houses of the Oireachtas. Licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). The Official Report is revised after first publication; the fetch timestamp below identifies the version quoted.

Record URI: https://data.oireachtas.ie/akn/ie/debateRecord/dail/2022-06-22/debate/main
Retrieved: 2026-08-14T04:50:43+00:00
Sitting date: 2022-06-22