Mr. Andrew Brownlee:

They are starting to work really well. We had a really important development recently which the Deputy might be familiar with. The NCCA oversees the development of the curriculum at second level. We have been working closely with it and we are just finalising something called an initial vocational education and training, IVET, module. It is a transition year module that will be used to give transition year students a taste of an apprenticeship or technical training in cooking, IT and so on. It is trying to take them into that more technical skills space. They are working really well. Most of our education and training boards now offer TY modules that enter their local secondary schools. In the past couple of weeks there has been something called an ETBI skills box. That is kind of like a suitcase-style thing. That has landed in every single school in the country and it gives them all the information they need about apprenticeships and further education and training.