Ms Teresa Hanratty:

I will come back in on the third level courses. Having worked with a number of third level institutes around recruiting into their journalism graduate programmes, some of the feedback we get is that while the courses are really good, it is about bridging that gap between coming out of college and being industry-ready to come into the industry. This is where the challenge is. We had a meeting with Dundalk IT on Monday last around the challenges there they are having in wanting to work with the industry but being restricted in being able to bring in experts from the industry as guest speakers or trainers on the college courses. I am not saying that they should come in and be full-time lecturers, but to be part-time guest lecturers to give students a real insight into what is happening in the radio-audio industry at the moment and how they can become work ready when their time at college is finished. To be fair to the colleges, they are restricted too in what they can do. There is probably a lot more that we can do together with third level institutes coming together, and ourselves as a training body for the radio industry and other industries, to work with them and make sure that the programmes are more practical and that students are more work ready when they do come out from third level courses.