Ms Tanya Kenny:

The Minister sets the policy on funding and the Higher Education Authority then distributes the funding. The legislation will not provide for quotas but will aim to work with institutions. I believe that addresses most of the Deputy’s questions on that issue. We have mentioned the access plan and there is a lot of strengthening for that in the scheme.

On the Deputy’s point about working together to get fit-for-purpose legislation, that is very much at the forefront of our minds, hence the emphasis on consultation and engagement to date, to assure the Deputy of that fitness for purpose.