Mr. Michael Sheahan:

I will come in on the second part of the Senator's question about going the whole hog and taking a centre of excellence approach. As the Senator rightly pointed out, UCD now has a well-deserved reputation and features in the top ten in the rankings. It would be fair to say that it has taken a fair amount of blood, sweat and tears over many years for UCD to achieve that level of excellence. It is not an unreasonable ambition that whoever eventually gets the nod to provide extra capacity will aim for a very high standard. The Senator mentioned equines and that is an obvious thing. We are world leaders in many ways in respect of equines so that is not an unrealistic ambition.