Mr. Dermot Callaghan:

We need seven students for each stream to be run. There is a fruit stream, a nursery stock stream and a garden centre stream, for example. There are different streams for the apprenticeships. Some modules are common but there are specialisations as well. The idea is to get the programme up and running and next year, we hope, we will see a big uptake. There is a lot of interest from industry. Businesses are signing up to become hosts and trying to identify needs. It is really nice for them because they can identify people already working for them whom they would like to encourage through an apprenticeship programme, where they will get a level 6 qualification over two years on a block release of approximately one day a week for the academic side and four days a week for the practical side of working in the company. It is positive from that perspective.