Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed)
Dail Éireann — 2022-02-02
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Sorca Clarke (SF), Longford-Westmeath

I will start by making a comment on Deputy Crowe's contribution. It was a very well-merited and passionately given contribution but not all of us got that experience of full-time education in third level institutions. We cannot forget about those other learners. I was one of those people who returned to college as an adult and a single parent while raising my daughter alone. We should not exclude people like that because when all we hear is one side of what college represents, we can mistakenly and absolutely unintentionally forget there is also another group of learners.

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Sitting date: 2022-02-02