Ms Emer Neville:

Yes. It comes back to representation again. If you are not seeing yourself in that position and cannot picture it, then it is not accessible to you. If careers teachers in boys' schools do not have modules on caring, nursing, music and so on, the boys will not even think of doing that. They will think, for example, that they are decent at maths so they might go on and get a maths degree and become a teacher or they will perhaps think that since they made it through the first year of engineering in senior cycle, they will just study engineering. The only career options they are getting are what is being presented to them by their schools. Unfortunately, as the Deputy said, they are being pigeonholed into those careers.