Marc Ó Cathasaigh (Waterford, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

I worry about that term now having been used in so many contexts that the meaning is beginning to slide. For cost rental to be really effective within the housing market, we need a specific definition of what it should do and should not do.

I will turn briefly to Professor Hegarty. In broad terms, I agree with his observation that random selection is an obscenity. What that throws up, however, is that there are high-competition courses. I am wondering a little bit about whether throughput is being planned. I trained as a primary school teacher after training as a medievalist, a field I found out had a limited labour market. I turned to primary school teaching. There was a shortage of primary school teachers and places were scaled up as a result. There was then a failure to scale back those places. I sometimes worry that people are being trained for emigration. We have high-competition courses that are desirable for several reasons but are we matching third-level provision to what the needs will be? I do not necessarily believe in matching educational outcomes to the marketplace. That is not necessarily how one should guide educational outcomes. That said, is there an awareness of the danger that we may be educating people for emigration, particularly those in training to become veterinarians, doctors or educators, for example, whatever about broader education such as arts degrees?.