David Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

That is an important point. I know from a briefing I received on the merger of the Waterford and Carlow institutes of technology that the last big piece of the jigsaw being looked at is the change management strategy. It would be interesting for us to look at whether there is a separate change management strategy for each of the mergers, for example. They are all different because we are looking at corporate headquarters and so on, but it is the governance model in which I am most interested. What is the relationship within the Higher Education Authority, HEA, and that process? Will the governance model be consistent because we have had inconsistencies across the board in the past? I know that is a separate issue but, in the same vein, it is something we need to be watching, as the committee was across the technological university process in terms of cost. Governance will be a critical piece that the technological universities will have to get right.