Professor Seamus McGuinness:

But it is not good enough just producing young people with skills. An industrial policy is needed that creates the jobs that have sufficient income and value added in them to absorb those. It is a threefold strategy. The other strand would be improving infrastructural links. I got a train in Newry this morning. It was the only train that would get me into Dublin before 9 a.m. and I had to sit on it for two hours. That is just not good enough. It is ridiculous. There are issues around infrastructure. Those would be the three key aspects: a combination of changes to industrial policy, human capital provision, focusing particularly on vocational skills and infrastructural development. They will come with a significant price tag.