Professor Declan McGonagle:

No, that situation did not and does not arise which relates to my point about our focus on delivery. We focus on sustaining learning but within the capacity of the college to do so. We would argue very strongly that we have been very successful with the quality of student learning in the college, and in terms of the graduates we produce and where they go. In addition, there has been an increase in student numbers in response to a continuing demand for education in art and design at the NCAD. As has been pointed out, it takes so much management time to cover that delivery because we work the internal system all of the time.