Lynam also discussed the effect that the recession has had on some students and the effects that even harsher cuts to grants will have on future students. “There’s a certainty that if the grant is cut there are students who won’t be in UCD next year. There is a certainty that if the funding of our institutions continues to get cut, the abolishment of the student assistant fund and the scaling back of the student welfare fund, there will be students who will not be in UCD next year.”With 15,000 students expected to march between Parnell Square and Government buildings, huge disruptions can be expected in Dublin city centre. When questioned about the inconvenience that will be caused to the public, Lynam responded, “If people are annoyed about the disruption, well so be it. We’re annoyed the decisions being made haven’t even considered the future of the country.”This will be the third time in six years that students have marched against rising cost of third-level education. Lynam maintains that protests do work: “When fees were to come back in 2004, they marched and fees weren’t brought back in. In 2008 again we did march and fees weren’t brought back in.”Lynam believes that now, more than ever, there is a necessity to march against fees: “In 2010 circumstances are a lot worse. This isn’t an ideological left versus right. This is about the registration fee doubling.”