Professor Michael Shevlin:

We have a dedicated national schools co-ordinator, Des Aston. We have been linking with the career guidance sector, with ETBs, the City of Dublin ETB and other schools. It is slow work. We also work with the National Association of Principals and Deputy Principals and the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment, NCCA. We have made contact with them all to make them aware but all we can offer at the moment is our programme. That is why we need to develop capacity for young people everywhere in the country. We have a young person travelling from Cork at the moment to do our programme. We have people regularly coming from Carlow or Mullingar. Wherever there is a train, they are travelling up but that is because there is not anything where they are. The Athlone campus of TUS is part of INHEF and it wants to begin a programme. We would encourage that because we think it should be locally based, unless there is something we are doing that the person really wants to do.