Jim O'Callaghan (Dublin Bay South, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I thank everyone for their opening statements and for coming before the committee, especially Ms Hanrahan. Not many people would wish to spend their last day in work appearing before an Oireachtas committee, but as Oireachtas committees go, we are not too bad.

There appears to be an issue around whether a course should be approved and validated in advance of it starting - ex anteas Dr. Walsh put it - or whether we should wait until it is up and running, ex post. I can see the arguments in favour of and against both. Am I correct in stating that Dr. Walsh thinks that ex anteprogramme approval appears to be safer? Is that from the students’ perspective?