I agree on that, but would the Minister not agree that the dispute which has broken out in the Thomond College in Limerick and which is directly related to what we are talking about is an instance of the harm that this whole new proposal is causing?

By the reference to Thomond does the Deputy mean——

The dispute between the students of Thomond and University College, Cork.

I am sorry the Deputy brought this in, because my information is that there has not been any change at all proposed in the system of assessing for examinations in Thomond College by University College, Cork, this year and it is on exactly the same basis as it has been. How the students came to be under the impression that a change was proposed whereby the number of marks awarded for the continual assessment of that part of their course was to be reduced I do not know. I do not know who fed them this information or what was the basis for it but, I am assured by both University College Cork, and the governing body of Thomond that there is no basis for it.

I take the Minister's point but could I ask the Minister if he received a submission from the students indicating that they are the first group that have been totally trained on the campus in Limerick and that they were led to believe at the beginning of this academic year that the assessment would be made, with a certain proportion of marks going for continual assessment and a certain proportion for the terminal examination? Would the Minister agree that a change has taken place in what was agreed at the beginning of this academic year?

This is not directly related to the question and I have not got the relevant documents in front of me, but my memory is that there is no change. I am open to correction on that and on the narrower point of what was the impression earlier this year, but I believe the apportionment will be exactly the same as it was in the summer and autumn of 1976 and the summer of 1977.