Ruairi Quinn (Dublin South East, Labour)

The Teaching Council will undoubtedly be monitoring this debate, but I will bring the matter to its attention. In my profession there is a category of unemployed or retired architects. The same applies in other professions. One's qualifications are not in any way invalidated but one's income status, to which Senator Martin Conway referred, is registered. The Teaching Council will make its own decision and I am not in a position to direct it regarding minutiae, nor would I want to do so.