Mr. Pat Doherty:

When discussing collaboration North and South, one of the problems in the Northern side is that education is divided into two different departments, Mr. John O'Dowd is the Minister with responsibility for first and second level education. An Alliance Party Minister has responsibility for third level and that will be resolved because the Department will be split between the Departments of Enterprise and Education but at present it is a separate Department. There is an added problem of linkages and that report from the Department should not have got passed in the way it did get passed.