Pearse Doherty (Donegal, Sinn Fein)
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544. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a third level institution will further extend the date for submitting a driver licence for a student (details supplied) for a paramedic studies courses in which the delay in test dates is outside the control of the applicant and due to Covid-19 restrictions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24000/20]

Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) are governed by the Universities Act 1997, the Institutes of Technologies Acts 1992 to 2006 and the Technological Universities Act 2018. Within the meaning of these Acts, HEIs are autonomous with regard to the management of their academic affairs and as such retain the right to determine their own procedures and processes, including admissions. Neither the Minister nor the Department have any remit to intervene in such matters.

Rose Conway-Walsh (Mayo, Sinn Fein)
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545. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will share the legal advice he has received that has led to him deciding not to ring-fence places for CAO applicants who sat the leaving certificate before 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23498/20]

Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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The Attorney General is the legal adviser to the Government and as such advice received by Government is legally privileged. Consequently, I am not in a position to share or release the advice concerned. However I have set out the substance of it in my media interviews and press conference last week.