Marie Louise O'Donnell (Independent) | Oireachtas source

However, that realisation should not have come about yesterday. It should have been arrived at last year or in the preceding three years. This is the tragedy. What is being stated now is that we are moving on and doing things differently. This matter has been bubbling away for the past three to five years and the relevant individuals have been getting away with it during that period. That is my point.

If the students involved were issued with visas, then that implies State responsibility. In that context, therefore, students would have assumed that there was some form of regulatory authority in place. That is ICOS's calling card in the context of the State's calling card of benevolence.