David Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I will make a general point, which I have made already. This committee is going to produce a report on the third level institutes. The HEA's role in examinations and investigations should form part of it. The committee needs to consider whether it is satisfied with the use of these external companies and the handsome money they are paid to do work, and whether that is truly independent, given that the institutes themselves pay and write the cheques. Hopefully, when that work is done we might tease out some of these issues with Dr. Love and his team.