Dr. Greg Foley:

I would like to reply to the Senator's final comment by drawing his attention to table 1 on page 2 of my submission, which sets out the mechanisms that are in place in DCU and which, I think, are typical of all institutions. We are overloaded with quality mechanisms. There is a huge amount of goodwill there. This is in total contrast to the position in the 1980s, when I was a student. We had buckets of lecturers who were so bad they were good. We knew that they were hopeless and that we had to teach ourselves. That worked at that time. Nowadays, the mechanisms are huge. As I said earlier, next week after I have marked my scripts my office will be like a dentist's office because there will be queues of people outside my door. I will have to justify the marks I have given to my students. That is something that would never have happened-----