Caít Keane (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I think the Minister is familiar with this matter. It concerns the pilot training college that went into liquidation. There are still many students who have huge bank loans which they cannot afford to pay. Some had to give up their training; some had to borrow again to re-train. They thought that as the Government was involved in granting the licence to the training college it should take some responsibility to establish if there is any way to work this through to the satisfaction of the students and their parents. Through no fault of their own some had to come back from America, which involved extra flights and expense. We have seen what can be done, and was rightly done for those who suffered from having pyrite in their homes, through no fault of their own.

I would like the Minister to look sympathetically on this case. It was raised at the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Transport and Communications but as I am not a member of that committee I am not aware of what happened. At the time the committee said that it would conduct a forensic examination of what happened, why, who was responsible and what could be done. I do not think, however, that the committee carried out that examination. I do not know why. The Minister may not know either but I would like to know if the committee did proceed with that examination and publish its findings. I look forward to hearing the Minister’s response and what he can do about this matter.