Student Assistance Fund
Dail Éireann — 2020-10-20
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Thomas Pringle (IND), Donegal

That is something that would be worthwhile. On the Connacht-Ulster alliance, there is a campus in Killybegs in the tourism college which also needs to be protected into the future. Strangely, Letterkenny, has been the biggest threat to it.
We need to look at why it is cheaper for many students in Donegal to go to college in Belfast, because rents are so much lower there. Even with the student fees that one has to pay up there, it is far cheaper for them to be in college there. Perhaps that is also a reason students do not come south because the costs down here are too expensive for them. The reason we do not have movement of students down south is something that needs to be looked at. I look forward to future engagement with the Minister on this issue and I thank him.

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Sitting date: 2020-10-20