A Fianna Fail TD has called on the Minister for Social, Community and Family Affairs, Mr Ahern, to abolish means-testing for students seeking to participate in the Department's summer jobs scheme.
Mr Sean Fleming said the scheme should be open to all students as the cost of allowing additional applicants on to the scheme would be offset by savings made on administering the means test. Only 10 per cent of the 15,000 students who applied last year were disqualified because of the test.