Dr. Ciarán Seoighe:

Sometimes, as well as the supports, it is about the awareness. Particularly in what we look after, STEM research and access, it is about building awareness from the early stages in all demographics that this opportunity and career are available to everybody. It is about engagement, and public engagement in particular. It starts with the parents as much as the schools and everywhere else when demonstrating that this is a career model and progression open to everyone. Building access and general public engagement is a core part of what we focus on doing. We often find people are not coming into the pipeline in the first place so we need to get people from all walks of life in Ireland into the pipeline and working through the system with adequate supports all the way along to ensure we do not have a leaky pipeline.