Sorca Clarke (Longford-Westmeath, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I see an emerging trend of a desire being expressed by people who may already have a career path, that is, those who are not directly out of school, going in through the traditional route to education. One issue I recently came across, which goes somewhat towards that recognition of prior learning, is that some professional institutes have not aligned with QQI in having their professional programme placed on the framework. Therefore, anybody who holds that qualification cannot say their qualification is the equivalent of a level 7, a level 8 or whatever the case may be. There is a barrier, then, to them going onto the council website and going through the courses that are there. These are people who would be recognised if they were part of another institute in the same field as having multiple potential areas where they could teach. Is that an issue the council has come across?