Mr. Seamus McCarthy:

The point of SUSI was that it centralised the administration of all student grants. I think one of the advantages, perhaps, of SUSI was that by bringing the administration together, it created a database that could be more easily compared with the Department of Social Protection database. This may have happened in the past and the bringing into existence of SUSI may have created a capacity to control it better. That is a possibility, but because we do not have information from previous years we are not going to know that.