The education critic has no issues with government freezing tuition fees next fall, but he says there are many questions that have to be answered.

The provincial government over-rode MUN by cancelling a scheduled increase in tuition, linking the move to what it views as administrative bloat.

MUN did shuffle around some executive positions and cut one job, reducing its costs by about a million dollars. It has another $20-million to go.

Bernard Davis says the move begs questions such as how much will the freeze cost, and who will pay it – government or the university.

He wonders if there will need to be cuts to programming to make up the difference. As well, he says there is no costing by government.

He agrees with Minister Paul Dinn that Memorial has to get its fiscal house in order, which is why the Liberal government of the day called in the Auditor General to go through MUN’s books.