Olivia Mitchell (Dublin South, Fine Gael)
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Reference was made to using a different diaspora and to those who come from countries with developing markets to be educated. I was in Taiwan last year. The Minister for Finance there, a doctor, was educated in the Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland and had a great interest in the issue. He is representative of a very valuable diaspora. However, it has arisen a couple of times at meetings that Irish universities are competing with one another abroad rather than travelling abroad as a group with the message that one should come to Ireland to attend university. Are the delegates aware of this?