As you can see, we have two distinguished Guest Speakers. The Minister for Education and Skills, Mr Ruairí Quinn, TD Communications, Energy & Natural Resources, Mr. Pat Rabbitte TD presumably needs no further introduction from me. Our second Speaker is Dr Andrew McGettigan who writes on English Higher Education. He is a member of the Campaign for the Public University and he blogs at Critical Education (http://andrewmcgettigan.org). His book "The Great University Gamble: money, markets and the future of higher education will be published by Pluto Press in April 2013 (http://plutobooks.com/display.asp?K9780745332932).