Mr. Paul Hannigan:

On collaboration with universities, from our perspective in Letterkenny, the INTERREG projects have been really important in developing research links with Ulster University and Queens University Belfast. Strong collaboration with both universities has meant we have been able to run PhD projects in Letterkenny for students studying here. We would not have been able to do that without their support. That develops our own capabilities to contribute towards the development of the technological university. That ongoing collaboration is really important and has very much strengthened over the past while.

There was an anomaly regarding A levels, which was unfortunate. Some effort has been made to resolve it. It probably had a greater impact on the bigger universities in Dublin in the movement of students in there. My son studies in Northern Ireland so he is a cross-Border student. He gets the benefit of going to Belfast and enjoying that so he keeps up to date on what is happening on a cross-Border basis from a student perspective.