Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

There will be a massive improvement. We eagerly await that.

On higher education, in the equality section of the report, there are metrics covering students with disabilities, Travellers and quite a number covering women in particular positions and so on, which are important metrics in terms of equality. I suggest one of the biggest issues in higher education in terms of equality is the major inequality in the difference between people from higher socioeconomic and people from lower socioeconomic backgrounds accessing university and higher education. We need to know we are improving in that or not as the case may be. As it is a major issue, there should be some metric that captures that and assesses whether decisions we make about grants, fees, outreach programmes or whatever it may be are delivering any change in terms of accessibility to higher education. I do not know if Mr. Kinnane would have any comment on that but that needs to be added in there.