Ruairi Quinn (Dublin South East, Labour) | Oireachtas source

If Deputy Ryan would copy the Department of Education and Skills with the specific information, and I do not wish to intrude on the privacy of the individual who came to his clinic. The whole thinking around Quality and Qualifications Ireland, QQI, which brought FETAC and HETAC together into one qualifications framework is around ten qualifications. A qualification is a qualification and it does not matter what road one took to get to a level 6 qualification. The only issue is that level that one achieves. There should be no prejudice unless there are express reasons against the route one takes. All roads to level 6 or level 5 qualifications are equally valid, if they are properly signed off at that level. If the Deputy is encountering residual prejudice of one kind or another because a particular path was travelled to get to that point, I would love the Deputy to revert to me when he has done the business on the clinic case in question to have the data anonymised so that we can raise it with all Government bodies recruiting staff. It would not just be confined to that Department. My colleague, Deputy Cannon, may wish to add to my remarks.