Mr. Richard White:

I will reply to Deputy Fitzmaurice's statement about transition year students. It would be a great idea and we should start as soon as is humanly possible. In terms of the younger people who work on contractors' outfits, I see that there is a lack of drivers' safety awareness. To be fair, if they have attended agricultural college, we know that they have had safety beaten into them since the day they went in. The people who have not gone to agricultural college, however, and who come to a contractor looking for a summer job for six to eight weeks present the biggest problem of all in terms of the lack of safety awareness around agricultural machinery and vehicles. The problem for the contractor is the high risk because the contractor becomes the trainer as well as being the employer. The training should have started in school and transition year is a great place to do that. There should be more connection between rural businesses and the schools and we need to do that going forward to bring up the skills base.