Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Very much so. My impression would be that LWETB is doing that and is doing that well. We have been doing these regional dialogues, which have been quite good, where we have been going to regions and having all the education players at a tertiary level to come into a room to discuss provision and their plans for their region, whether it is an ETB, a research centre, a technological university or a traditional university. One was hosted in Athlone in the last quarter of last year. The Deputy has asked a fair question and I am happy to get her a briefing note from the ETB on the totality of provision in Longford-Westmeath. The big development on my radar, however, which I am aware of, and the big project which we have been asked to fund and support, is around those electric vehicle programmes. That is the big piece of work it worked on as a flagship project for Mullingar. I would be very surprised if the ETB in Longford-Westmeath is not working very closely with the technological university on these new tertiary degrees where one can study for a degree-----