Mr. Bertie Ahern:

I do not have figures but as the Deputy knows, one things is that it still is a pity that so many sons and daughters of unionists go abroad and do not see the mobility. That is an area in which we should be trying to encourage them. What happens is that they go abroad and do not come back. Some people might argue the rights and wrongs of that. From my perspective, that is a pity because we are losing good people who could well get jobs here. We end up bringing people in internationally, rather than hiring people who were born and reared on the island of Ireland. There is not great co-operation on that end. We should make it more welcoming in that regard. The last figures I saw were from before the pandemic, from 2018, but the proportion of students from the unionist tradition in Northern Ireland who were going outside the island of Ireland for their education was quite high. That is a loss. That is an area in which we should almost be encouraging them to-----