Professor Diarmuid Hegarty:

Basically, we have the National Skills Council and regional skills fora. The purpose is to identify the skills and ask educators to provide the courses that address the skills gaps. There would be feedback from the educators. We are funded through Springboard+ to do these things but it just does not make sense that we are not represented on the regional skills fora and the National Skills Council. If we were, the communication would be much better.