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Tue 08 Aug 2008Parties attack O'Keeffe's fees proposal
FIANNA FÁIL's Coalition partners and the Opposition parties have all come out strongly against Minister for Education Batt O'Keeffe's proposal to reintroduce third-level fees for the better-off.
Progressive Democrats leader Senator Ciarán Cannon - differing from PD Minister for Health Mary Harney - said his party had pledged in the last election that third-level fees would not be reintroduced, while the Greens insisted that there was no commitment in the programme for the Government to bring in fees.
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