Dr. Alan Wall:

We will. I imagine that a range of things are going to come up. I responded to it earlier and I understand why people are saying it but I get nervous when I read things about how the sons and daughters of farmers should have particular dispensation. In a small system like ours, if you begin to allocate scarce places on the basis of what parents did, it is a world of pain. We have worked very hard, with a number of governments over a number of years, to broaden that and to get away from that kind of perpetuation in order that people who get the points get in, irrespective of who they are. I accept that there is a downside to that as well, that the Deputy is thinking about. One of the things that worries me is an interview system, to be honest, because again we are a small country. One of the things the CAO did was to get away from that. I am taking that UCD uses a portfolio which broadens that out, and I am aware that the health professions admission test, HPAT, has done that for medicine and has changed the profile of people getting on the course. There are other ways of dealing with that, but it is a conversation that I imagine we will have at a later stage. The key point to get across to the committee is that this is first step, as it were. Just getting to find out who is willing to do it and what it might cost them is the first step. All those things follow from that and will be dealt with.