Ms Chris Kelly:

I will take the question on the teacher workforce. It is known that the teaching workforce is not representative of the student body in the school system. We have been doing considerable work in the context of teacher supply. The Teaching Transforms campaign, which is designed to attract young students into the teaching profession, is under way. This year's campaign, which commenced in December, focused on diversity. The young student teachers and teachers who were involved in that were all from groups which are under-represented in the teaching profession. It is also important to note that path 1, which is an equity of access programme at third level, is working at increasing the number of under-represented groups in the teaching profession. That was reviewed last year and is continuing. With regard to the work involved in that, there are various projects. The higher education institutions, HEIs, are working alongside secondary schools and some primary schools to raise the awareness of teaching and the pathways to teaching, etc. We have more recently been looking at how we may be able to collect data on this question. There are no readily available data but we are looking at that as part of our data collection and teacher supply work.