Mr. John Twohig:

In response to Deputy Martin's question on female participation, we brought out four additional experts who are judges when they get to WorldSkills with a view to expanding the range of skills that we would be taking next time, and certainly two of those, which would be visual merchandising and hairdressing, are more likely to be female competitors. One of our female competitors had a bus to catch unfortunately; she was going back to Kerry. There is female participation and we are working on getting more female participation.

In the new apprenticeship systems cooking is one of those and we brought out an expert in that to revive our interest in that competition. That could either be male or female because both compete in that competition.