Third level fees likely to go up in budget

[McDave]

You want people to start out in the work force 15 grand in debt? What if they loose their job (like I did) and can't afford to make repayments? You don't get social welfare, your just ************************************, I nearly defaulted on my loan and credit card.

Nearly defaulted on your credit cord did you, little troll.

Timewaster.

[Superlepreachaun]

I would think so. If you're truly strapped for cash, you can get a boring pre-paid phone and string out a tenner over a month. That's already 5% off your €15k loan. You also have the option of getting a port-time job during your studies and getting a summer job thereby reducing the amount to be repaid.

Get back on Planet Earth dude, and pull your weight.

************************ YOU YOU UTTER ************************************G ******************************!

I pull my weight with a job and crippling myself with ************************************g debt to pay the fees in this place!

You dont live on ************************************g planet earth who gives a school leaver with no savings a 15k loan? What ************************************g bank would give an 18 year old with no savings 15grand?????? Especially now when they're not loaning anybody anything.

[McDave]

A graduate tax system linked to your earnings the same way of any income tax does the same thing.
The CURRENT system does the same thing!
The only problem with the current system is the registration fee going from 600-1600 over the last decade and the low funding of university's in general in Ireland to the point where they're cutting deals with soft drink company's to get money in.
The taxpayer (of which students are a part I might remind you, or so my pay slip would indicate) are not getting "stiffed" now anymore than they are in paying for emergency rooms, roads or cops. They're gaining an educated workforce, less people on the dole, more high earning taxpayers to pay for things they need (anyone not using tax money from education is using it from healthcare, roads, police etc)

[Superlepreachaun]

************************************g cowards like you are the problem at the moment, instead of attacking the people who are actually causing the problems here you sit on your ass in front of a keyboard and go after the people who are victims of it. Nice and easy to pick on some ************************************g college kids instead of taking on the plutocrats that actually bankrupted us isn't it? Does it make you feel nice and tough?

[ellie08]

typical right wing response of a student of today - the rich are your enemies not workers where you yourself will be in a few years. I haven't heard one student talking about fighting all the cuts - it's all 'that's me off to Australia then' - though I wouldn't really blame ye for that to be honest...

That would be a left wing response actually

[McDave]

************************ YOU YOU UTTER ************************************G ******************************!

I pull my weight with a job and crippling myself with ************************************g debt to pay the fees in this place!

You dont live on ************************************g planet earth who gives a school leaver with no savings a 15k loan? What ************************************g bank would give an 18 year old with no savings 15grand?????? Especially now when they're not loaning anybody anything.

Kissy, kissy! Bye, bye! Little troll goes straight onto "Ignore"!!!

[ellie08]

Means testing is heavily biased against the PAYE sector.

it surely is.