Cullen should resign if technology institute fails to get university status

IF Education Minister Mary Hanafin confirms that Waterford Institute of Technology (WIT) will not be upgraded to university status, then Social and Family Affairs Minister Martin Cullen must demonstrate his support for Waterford by resigning from the cabinet.

As he has previously promised his full support for the upgrade, failure to resign would be a complete reversal and a betrayal by him of the people of the south-east region.

Defence Minister Willie O’Dea showed that his cabinet position mattered most to him by not opposing Government inaction in the Shannon-Heathrow debacle. Is Minister Cullen now going to do the same and completely go against a key part of his campaign for re-election to the Dáil for Waterford last summer?