Ms Émer Deane:

The issue the Deputy rightly identified came through in research we funded through the ESRI two years ago.

The Department of Education and Youth has been asked to look and see what it can do in working with the CAO. That has been taken forward in an Ireland-UK framework. UCAS, which is the British equivalent of the CAO, has as of this year added an additional page of information specific to Irish students to begin to fill that gap and will begin to mainstream that through to the information provided to schools. On this side, the CAO is now working to do likewise to provide better specific tailored information for students coming from Northern Ireland or from Great Britain, GB.