Rose Conway-Walsh (Mayo, Sinn Fein)

I suppose what I am saying is there is a gap there that is not currently being filled and I do not want another academic year to go by and we still talk about it. I welcome the research that was done - we had already done research on the education committee. We keep identifying the gaps but it is not getting to where we need it to be able to make the changes we need to make to increase the student mobility to the extent we need it to happen.

This committee did some work on constitutional change previously and we have made recommendations on it. One of those recommendations is the whole-of-government approach to constitutional change; the preparation of a Green Paper was another; and the setting up and resourcing of an Oireachtas committee dedicated to the preparation of a new Ireland. Is Ms Deane aware of the research we have done, first in terms of women in the Constitution and the finance and economics? How those cross-party recommendations being taken and incorporated into the shared island unit? How does she see that happening in the current term?