Ruairi Quinn (Dublin South East, Labour)

I hope the HEA will come back to me before the end of this calendar year. We will not discover new crocks of gold and much of the data has been gathered but we must get hard information and look at the implications. It is a mixture of extra resources going into the system and economies being found within it. I am not the specialist to do that; we will ask the HEA and the participating colleges to do it. Again, what must be outlined at this level are a bottom-up approach and a strategic policy acting in partnership.

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