Dr. Don Thornhill:

Certainly. It would be our intention that the legal profession would be an open access profession. What the Deputy said is interesting. It is the anecdotal perception many of us have. We all know bright people who qualified for the Bar and had to give us active practice at the Bar because they simply were not earning enough to support their families or they were relying too much on the financial support of their parents. My anecdotal experience is that I know of clever sons and daughters of my friends who went to London. In all cases they did postgraduate law degrees in London and ended up working in high reputation chambers very quickly. The same would not have happened in Dublin.