“After reports of three students raped in University College Cork, the Minister for Justice, Charlie Flanagan has lent his support to the creation of a Garda forum to tackle sexual assault in universities …” (more)
[Eleanor O’Mahony, University Times, 26 September]
“Maureen O’Sullivan (Dublin Central, Independent): To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will support the students at Bethlehem University by strongly condemning their exclusion from the European Union Student Mobility Programme, ERASMUS, while Israeli students are permitted full membership but Palestinian institutions such as the University of Bethlehem are not; his views that this is unfair; and if he will make a statement on the matter …” (more)
[Dáil written answers, 3 November]
“The last of the J1 students have been trickling back from the US over the last few weeks, and with them come what seem to be now annual stories of student accommodation left trashed in their wake …” (more)
[Irish Times, 23 September]
“Taoiseach Enda Kenny has been told by a string of his backbenchers he must stop Education Minister Ruairi Quinn’s plans to include farm and business assets in the means test for college grants …” (more)
[Fiach Kelly, Independent, 14 February]
“Deputy Charles Flanagan: I thank the Office of the Ceann Comhairle for allowing me to raise this matter. I am alarmed and perturbed to read reports emanating – from where I am not sure – that farmland and farms will be taken into consideration for the assessment of income for third level students. I am not sure if the Minister of State, Deputy Sherlock, is replying to this matter but I ask him to desist from texting during my contribution …” (more)
[Dáil Éireann, 22 May]
