Marc Ó Cathasaigh (Waterford, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

That is useful. There is a way to run yet.

The technological universities have been a driver towards the balanced regional development to which Senator Dolan referred and for which we are all striving. An issue in respect of transformational funding has been raised with me consistently. Transformational funding was extremely important in the introduction of multicampus universities and trying to integrate systems and ensuring that staffing worked out correctly. All of those were important. I understand that transformational funding is coming to an end. Several universities have expressed to me that there is still a need for it and while they have travelled very far down the road to becoming one single, combined institution, they are not fully there, and the transformational funding will still be important, going forward. What are the Minister's thoughts on that matter?