Mr. Michael Gillespie:

The situation is the same at secondary level. We have an awful lot of people who are trained in specific subjects and have transferable skills such as languages or qualifications in physics and chemistry. Those people can transfer into the main body of employment and are no longer available to teach, although they may maintain their registration because it only costs €65 per year and will give them options in the future. Those people do not want to allow that registration to lapse and remove those future options. I agree with what Mr. Boyle said. I do not believe there are 6,000 of those kinds of people available.