Professor Ciar?n ? h?gartaigh:

I sat in on the discussion with students. This is a very important issue. The last time I was here I undertook to look at the equivalences. This is one I now undertake to look at. If there is something the universities can do, I will ask my staff in the access area to take a look at it, and that it be looked at throughout the sector, because if it is something we can fix, we will fix it. It is an anomaly. It may be an issue between the HSE and the NHS but we, the universities, will try to fix it if we can. We will correspond with the committee on that because, having listened to the students earlier, it is an anomaly that should be fixed.