Dr. Noel O'Connor:

There is no library on site but they have access. Just to be clear, in Mountjoy Square originally and in the surrounding areas, including Portland Row, there were nearly 1,300 students. We had students in the department of photography in Temple Bar who had a lot further to travel to get access to a library. Portland Row students had to do the exact same. Those students have now moved up onto the campus and they are thrilled and delighted. We would want the same level of service for those students, as the Chairman rightly said.

Before I hand over to my colleague, can I just say that DIT has fully supported the mature student access programme. We are getting no funding from the State for it. We are funding that ourselves through our own philanthropy. That is a huge commitment. In both cases, we have put in designated full-time co-ordinators to work on those programmes. We have two individuals, which is very unusual, we have 1,000 access students spread across the rest of DIT and we have 1,200 students with disabilities spread across the rest of DIT. We are hugely committed to this. I accept entirely that what is happening in Mountjoy Square is not ideal. We are desperately trying to balance the fact that, through no fault of our own but through a legal challenge, all of those students who should be moving into brand new facilities, that move has been pushed back to September 2019.