Mr. William Beausang:

The OECD carried out a review of school strategy, published last May, which helped to further refine the ideas we have for significant investment in such areas as digital transformation, decarbonisation, sustainability challenges; investment in the tertiary education system to deliver the kind of enterprise-led training and reskilling that will be important for dealing with the challenges that lie ahead; and ensuring there is cutting-edge technology in the further education and training system and the area of intermediate level skills. When we think about the importance of manufacturing in the Irish economy, as it is and as it can be in the future, we see that we need people, not only at higher level coming out of universities, but also coming out of the vocational education system who have the ability to work in the pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical sectors and fill the technical and vocational roles.