Neasa Hourigan (Dublin Central, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

I have read it. I will move on to my second question. I appreciate Dr. O’Connor is pointing out the main thrust of the report is that we need to expand the tax base. I do not know if he has watched the other sessions, but when we have sectoral interests come in, we find it most difficult to get anybody to accept that we need to accrue more tax to the State. One way to do that would be to make employment as available to people as we can and as possible for people as we can. It came out of our discussions post Covid that there are cohorts of people who, for a number of reasons, find it harder to move back into the workforce, whether they were on the PUP or removed themselves from the workforce for a time. Of those cohorts, the older group stood out as people who struggled to upskill or did not feel it was possible to go back. Witnesses have referred to young people being supported and getting public employment services right and have commented on chapter 9. We have talked a little bit about employment supports but, in terms of young people and the 50 and upwards groups, how do we encourage people to upskill, move on to new sectors and feel they are wanted in the workforce and that it works for them to be at work?