Ms Barbara Gerstenberger:

That is absolutely correct. If we chose to reskill those out of work, the question we must answer is for what kind of occupations do we retrain and reskill these people. It is quite interesting that in a major re-education scheme that Sweden had to implement in the late 1990s because of a recession, they chose not to take the route of education for specific new skills and specific occupations but for generic skills - in effect going back to school to complete the leaving certificate. Generic skills and upgrading general numeracy and literacy skills were deemed-----