Mr. Bryan O'Mahony:

Better support for guidance counsellors and teachers is needed. If they do not have the information to give, they can therefore not give clarity to students if they do not have the clarity themselves. People in the South who wish to use the UCAS system should have the support on how to write a personal statement. If I was doing my leaving certificate and had to write a personal statement for the UCAS system but had no support on how to write one, that would immediately be a turn-off, especially when all I would have to do is enter my points for the CAO system.