Anthony Lawlor (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

It is. By "providers", I mean the schools or other facilities that are providing the courses that are being recognised by QQI. Will the providers have to facilitate the authority with a list of students who are attending those schools, so they can link with the Department of Justice and Equality in order to make sure - I go back to the transfer of data from one Department to another - the relevant Departments are not working in silos, as they are now, but are communicating with one another? In this way, they would know to which provider each individual student is going.

Will QQI be able to speedily recognise new schools and provide them with the necessary award marks so they can be recognised internationally, given this is an international business and its reputation has been tarnished by what has happened in the last week. I know some teachers from Grafton College are present. There are other schools in similar situations to that of Grafton College that would have provided visas for students who never attended the schools. Will QQI quickly assess new facilities that open up to ensure students who are entering them are able to complete their courses?

Will QQI liaise with providers to ensure the fees that are charged are relevant to the course involved, meaning there will be no undercutting of the cost of fees being charged to students. This is what has indirectly led to the loss of, for example, Grafton College and other schools. Providers are undercutting to make sure they get students in but are probably not providing the education the student has paid for. Many of the schools that have gone under have done so as a result of not being able to financially support what they are supposed to deliver.