959. Deputy Tom Fleming asked the Minister for Education and Skills if she will review the draft technological universities Bill 2014 in view of the fact that if implemented as currently drafted it will lead to a dramatic reduction in the regional provision of programmes and corresponding inequity in access to higher education and allow the Higher Education Authority and the new technological universities the right to introduce new student fees, thus further increasing inequity in the educational sector; if she agrees that ministerial intervention is urgently required now, as the heads of Bill, in their current draft, are totally unacceptable to the 180 academic and research staff in the institute of Tralee, County Kerry, and likewise to staff in other institutions; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21647/15]

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959. Deputy Tom Fleming asked the Minister for Education and Skills if she will review the draft technological universities Bill 2014 in view of the fact that if implemented as currently drafted it will lead to a dramatic reduction in the regional provision of programmes and corresponding inequity in access to higher education and allow the Higher Education Authority and the new technological universities the right to introduce new student fees, thus further increasing inequity in the educational sector; if she agrees that ministerial intervention is urgently required now, as the heads of Bill, in their current draft, are totally unacceptable to the 180 academic and research staff in the institute of Tralee, County Kerry, and likewise to staff in other institutions; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21647/15]

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