Mr. Robert Donnelly:

As Mr. Foley said, the bursaries are small but there is a vast expense of going to college. Figures of €18,000 and €20,000 per year for courses were mentioned. It shows how desperate people are to embark on this career that they will attend if we give out a grant of €1,000 or €2,000. It means so much to them because they may have to take out two or three loans. We are lucky that we have the big scholarship with the American College Dublin, which covers full tuition for two years of the college course. This is a major help for one of our members. It is purely for an AIMS member. Having sat on committees with Ms Masterson, I am aware that people from AIMS are applying to attend the college and others are coming from abroad to get parts on these courses. Ms Masterson probably has more experience of that if she wishes to talk about it.