Máirín Quill
Question:5 Miss Quill asked the Minister for Education if her attention has been drawn to the growth in post-Leaving Certificate courses now taking place in a number of vocational education committee and other colleges in the country and to the enormous benefit to students of these courses because of their diversity and their relevance to aptitudes of young people particularly those with creative and enterprise talents and also the relevance to emerging job prospects in the labour market; if her attention has further been drawn to the need to grant-aid such students; and if she will make a statement on the matter.