The Dublin Institute of Technology Act incorporated the college of music in its entirety into the Dublin Institute of Technology without any division of educational areas into first, second and third levels. The college of music had offered, since 1987, degree level qualifications in association with Trinity College. It is worth noting that the Department of Education and Science continued to give the same proportion of overall budget to the Dublin Institute of Technology towards music education as it did to the City of Dublin Vocational Educational Committee when the college of music was an independent college.