Mr. Andrew Brownlee:

First of all, can I clarify what I was trying to say? I totally agree with the Senator around access to education and facilities. I was trying to say there is no additional barrier to delivering apprenticeship training in comparison with here, but I totally get that if a person lives in Glenties, they have a massive challenge to get over to Enniskillen or Derry to access that. Apprenticeship is only a bit of what we do. It is a very important bit of what we do, but there are 400,000 other people who engage in further education or community education. Donegal is one of our lead ETBs in providing access in the smallest, most rural communities to community education or pathways into education. I hope Donegal ETB is visible where the Senator lives and she can see that, but if it is not then it is definitely something we focus on and understand. We accept the barriers around childcare and access to transport and even access to technology for online learning and things like that. We are totally on the same page with that.