‘Support motion to reject income-contingent loans’

Third-level student representatives are urging political support for a Dáil motion that calls for rejection of income-contingent loans.

The Labour Party motion is calling on the Government to reject any move to introduce such a scheme to help fund higher education.

A loans scheme is one of the options put forward in last year’s Cassells report on third-level funding, but political consensus has yet to be reached by the Oireachtas Education Committee which heard evidence on this and other possibilities.