Jim Daly (Cork South West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I also welcome the group and commend it, as other speakers have done, on its campaign. The witnesses' presentations were very impressive and have given us plenty of food for thought. I have two brief questions. One concerns what Senator Byrne touched on. I am struck by Griffith College, for example, and other colleges that do not inform students of their status as private colleges. Some of the witnesses referred to the fact that they had applied to Griffith College and only realised afterwards that the grants would not be provided. Do the colleges make an effort to inform students in this regard? Second, I am curious to know what SUSI's response to the students has been to date. What kind of reasoning or rationale has been offered to them? In other words, what is the other side of the story that SUSI is putting forward? I am curious to know that. I apologise as I must leave but I will pick up the responses afterwards from the official record.