Rose Conway-Walsh (Mayo, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I will be very brief. I want to reassure Senator Mullen that everyone in Mayo heard him on Midwest Radio the other day. I heard it being discussed in households and heard parents encouraging their students to apply for it. I think that it is a really good idea.

I want to return again to the cap. If you cap at 1,200 for masters and we have a figure who qualified last year of 3,400, then we are 2,200 places short from the public schools plus any who would have been dissuaded or could not afford to take up the places in the private colleges. Will the Minister look at abolishing the cap to allow all students who would prefer to study at a public college to train to be a teacher to do so?