Mr. Paul Hannigan:

I am not sure exactly what the full figure is. If you take that those numbers are the migration every year, you could repeat those through the various different years of the programme. On the question the Deputy asked Mr. Purser, a significant number of Northern Irish students migrate to other universities in the UK and do not stay in Northern Ireland for their higher education. Some people in Northern Ireland say that they export a university a year in the numbers that go aboard. If you go back and look at the profile of all the universities across the Republic of Ireland, there is strong loyalty by students to the university in their region. As regards access from the Border counties to universities in Northern Ireland, there is a motorway practically the whole way from Derry to Belfast, good links from Derry to Letterkenny and strong links from Dundalk to Belfast with the motorway. Those logistical issues, in terms of proximity, also have an impact.