Ms Amber Sheridan O'Callaghan:

Where the employer is taking on young people, I feel that after junior certificate there should be the option to go to institutes of technology to be trained in the specific areas they would like and then employers could not really argue with them when they are trained to do the job. PLCs are beneficial but if I had some sort of psychology learning in school I would go straight into it in my degree instead of spending two years doing PLCs. Classes like that are beneficial.

On counselling and guidance counsellors, in mainstream school I never found any counselling, if it was even there. Guidance counselling, on the other hand, was difficult too. In the Cork Life Centre I was able to access both guidance counselling and counselling during the leaving certificate year and after the leaving certificate. I found that was beneficial to me but I know that not all students have that experience