John Deasy (Waterford, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Getting away from all this, I have number of questions for Dr. Neavyn. He mentioned in his opening statement that WIT is moving away forward to stage 2 of the university designation process.

Can Mr. Neavyn outline what that process is, the timeframes involved, where WIT is right now with regard to Carlow, what we can look forward to over the next year with regard to that process and the potential for both institutions to amalgamate and become a technological university?