Mairead Farrell (Galway West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I would like to see as much North-South mobility as possible and breaking down barriers in that sense as well.

In relation to the HEA opening statement, one thing that stood out to me and which I thought was quite interesting was that by mode of study, 59% were full-time students and 33% were part-time but 8% were remote students. That is quite fascinating because you would think that if I was working remotely, it would not matter where I was studying; I would just study wherever the course was that I would like to do.

What does the Higher Education Authority, HEA, see as the barriers to that? Is it, perhaps, that people do not look further?