Mairéad Farrell (Galway West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I want to talk about the technology and when it fails, but I wanted to ask another question. As a committee, we went to a school with children who are deaf. The kids would probably call themselves teenagers and they were all taller than me. One of the things that really stood out to me was how they described things like transition year work experience being very difficult. Dr. McCarthy was mentioning the whole issue of career guidance. Ms O'Dwyer was discussing moving into the workplace and that kind of thing. These teenagers were telling me that the kind of work experience they can get just is not what they would be interested in actually doing. It is not what we would expect work experience should be. What can we do there? I will ask Ms Agbona to bring in her experience in relation to that. Young people might be interested in being a solicitor, a lawyer or whatever. They should have that support. Maybe the Department is actively engaging with potential employers who would put that out there or whatever. Maybe for young people from smaller towns, there might not be somebody in the town with the ability to take it on.