Alan Farrell (Dublin Fingal, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

What the professor is proposing for higher end or higher cost courses would present further barriers to students across the nation, would it not? Perhaps he could provide an answer to that later in the course of the discussion.

On the timeliness of results, and forgive me if the reply to this was indicated in the written submission to the committee I have not had the opportunity to go through yet, but is it the international norm for the results at the end of secondary education to be awarded in July, thus presenting an opportunity for repeats or course choices? How do we compare internationally?

On bridging the gap and transition, I do not understand how that would form part of the leaving certificate in terms of the lived experience of students at third level. Perhaps our guests would like to go into that.