Mr. Ted Owens:

We have approximately 50,000 students in total. We have approximately 15,000 full-time post-primary students and 5,000 full-time post-leaving certificate students, with the remainder of the student population comprising people undertaking full-time courses in our training centre and under local training initiatives, what would formerly have been FÁS operations, and students involved in community education and adult literacy programmes. Besides further education and training and post-primary, we now have responsibility for some primary schools. Of our 50,000 students, approximately half are full-time students.