Mr. Pierce Connolly:

I have the list here, but unfortunately I do not have a prospectus for any of them. They will be sent to the committee.

There are three main ones which we have discovered. One is that IADT has a partnership with the Sound Training College in Temple Bar, which is a bit of a distance away. That is a partnership in creative music production which costs the State over €150,000. The DIT is in partnership with BIMM music college, which is the British and Irish Modern Music Institute. That course is called "commercial music" and it costs the State €1.2 million. Finally, we have Setanta Sport, which runs a course in conjunction with LIT on sports strength and conditioning, which costs the State €630,000. Over the last year alone, €847,000 was paid to approximately only 400 students attending these courses and getting SUSI grants. I know one of them personally. It was €847,000 in just maintenance grants alone. It is very unfair and upsetting. These are private, for-profit colleges like Griffith, DBS and ICHAS but because they have a partnership with an institute of technology, their students receive a SUSI grant. I think the members can agree that it is very unfair.