Mr. Andrew Brownlee:

We do not have exact data on how many go back. However, taking nursing, for example, we have about 800 post-leaving certificate, PLC, graduates every year from further education, which is a level 5 on the national framework of qualifications, NFQ. About 26% of them go directly into the higher education institutions in the Republic of Ireland. Another 600 go somewhere else. We can track them to some degree. An awful lot of them go to UK universities. Generally, they will come back. There are no quality issues, so they will come back after three, four or five years, perhaps after working in Australia or somewhere else. The key is to try to address that through places and placements. The HEA is running a process at the moment to look at that.