Kathleen Lynch (Cork North Central, Labour)
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Question 82: To ask the Minister for Education and Science her position on the reservation of places for students from Britain and Northern Ireland by Trinity College, Dublin; her views on whether this is a discriminatory practice. [3020/05]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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Admissions policy is a matter for each third level institution, having regard to the principles of equity and equality of access. I understand that the arrangements to which the Deputy refers have been put in place by Trinity College on a transitional basis to facilitate equity of access for all students, following the recent UCAS-leaving certificate benchmarking study, which resulted in changes in the relative weightings given by the college to grades achieved in A levels vis-a-vis those obtained in the leaving certificate.