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Dail Éireann — 2023-02-14
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Simon Harris (FG), Wicklow

I know my limitations, so I will not give any views or advice on dancing, a matter I will leave to the Deputy. He clearly managed to juggle quite a lot in getting through education, dancing and a job.
The serious point in all this is there is a cost-of-living challenge for many people, and I accept there is a cost to going to college and to education. I also fully accept there are many people, in both rural and urban Ireland, who are looking for somebody to work in their pub, hotel, supermarket, shop, pharmacy or wherever else. If it is possible to do both, as I think it is in a certain way such as weekend work, I do not think students should be overly penalised in the context of their SUSI grants. I will try to make more progress on this in the Estimates in the autumn.

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