Paddy Burke (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Minister for the reply. I have no doubt that he is fully committed to institutes of technology which are required to link to industry. However, I note to the Minister that Mayo has no head of campus at the moment. All departments now report to the Galway campus, which is a significant downgrading. The person has handed in her notice. She was put on a one-year contract and left for quite a long period before the contract was eventually handed out to her for this year. She has now resigned. As such, the Minister's Department has to ask why she has tendered her resignation. The Minister said he did not know about those issues and I have no doubt that he did not. They would not have been brought to his attention. As I have said, Castlebar has been bullied by Galway, which is not good enough. I still ask the Minister at this stage to get some official in his Department to investigate what is going on.