Ms Rose McHugh:

It is a good question. That perception is there to an extent and it is not helped even by our entrance which is old and austere. It can be off-putting. We have done a great deal of work to counter that and it is partly about going out to the regions. There is a men's shed group on the northside in Cork and our people have actually gone out to them to bring them back in because there was an initial trepidation about coming in. We also provide buses to people in direct provision centres to come in and we do arts and crafts classes with them. We have had to work around it and be a bit imaginative. We have subsidised courses for many of these people. It has probably involved us going out to get the people in and we have been doing that.