Mr. Paul Hannigan:

I think there might be one other issue in the context of the mobility of students into Great Britain, namely, the lack of availability of places on various programmes here, whereby they choose to go abroad because they can get onto programmes elsewhere in some of the universities. They make that choice early. They will have made it before they apply to universities in the Republic of Ireland and, because of the way the system works, they will know at this stage whether they have an offer. The offer will be conditional on their leaving certificate results or whatever the case may be, but they will already have it. When students see others doing that, follow that track and see people who have gone before them, that will, obviously, open a route. We saw that in the case of veterinary medicine students in Poland recently, where a piece on the news showed the huge numbers of Irish students who are already in Poland studying that subject. They choose to go there because places are not available here.