Brian Stanley (Laois-Offaly, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

GSOC needs to be more active in following up on what action is being taken. If it has looked for something, it should ascertain what is happening in that regard and whether progress is being made. That is important. I ask that GSOC follow up in that way. The committee should be making a recommendation that the issue needs to be fixed. There is a problem there.

I will bring in Ms Kennelly, principal officer at the Department of Justice, on this issue. What follow-up has there been by the Department with the Department of further and higher education? Things go round and round in this country. If we do not address this, there will still be a shortage ten years from now. There is a problem here that we have to fix.