Dr. Alan Wall:

Yes. I will speak in generalities, if the Deputy does not mind. One of the things we are concerned about, as the Higher Education Authority, is how we plan a system and the regionality of it. We are concerned about regional balance and it is something we have mentioned in our response back to Government. Without getting into specifics, a regional spread is something that we think is important, not least of which is because although the evidence is anecdotal, it seems to stack up that people tend to stay where they are educated. That is an issue around some of the provision of education not just in veterinary medicine but in pharmacy, nursing and all the other things we looked at the same time. Without getting into specifics, we are mindful that as the HEA we have regional responsibility. As the Deputy knows, we have created very powerful universities by amalgamating institutes of technology. They are more than the sum of their parts and are providing education on a regional basis. They have a mission about regional interaction. We are mindful of that, let us say, in terms of the overall provisions.