Marie Louise O'Donnell (Independent)
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It is a huge area, and an area that the Joint Committee on Education and Social Protection might have paid a little bit more attention to. The committee amalgamates the areas of education and social protection, which is ridiculous, because they are two cities in themselves and should never have been amalgamated into one committee. They both demand individual meetings twice a week.

I would like to ask the witnesses a creative question. The papers of all three witnesses were absolutely brilliant from completely different vantage points, personally and academically. I ask the witnesses, if they were Minister for Education and Skills or president of their universities, hypothetically and creatively, what is the one thing within third level education they would pinpoint as something that needs to be changed, added to or let go.