Mr. Frank Jones:

Do I know of any unanticipated obstacles as it stands right now? Have I any inside track? No, not other than what I have said already and what the TUI has covered. We covered some of the issues related to funding and travel for students. I have not read the USI’s submission as the Deputy has done, but I have no doubt that travel is included in that. There are a few positive initiatives. Let us be positive. Some North-South initiatives have worked very well. One is the Irish Association for American Studies and its projects, North and South. The concern I have about dedicated North-South projects and the funding and contracting of them, would be, particularly in research projects, not to introduce any new precarious situations. I believe there are opportunities, there is funding, and they will have to work with us in the trade unions to promote this. It will break down some of the barriers further. It is terrible that, 50 years later, after the research that Fr. Mac Gréil relied on, here we are with a situation that is not too different. We will definitely work with the committee. Do I know more than we have said? No.