Ms Cliodhna O'Neill:

The remit of the educational welfare officers goes up to 16.

As I was saying, we can see that aspect regarding further and higher education in relation to Youthreach and so on. We will continue through this strategy, and we have great relationships there anyway. It is about ensuring we are not dropping children and young people at that stage. I agree with the Deputy that third year is a critical year. We can see the numbers who start, the numbers who sit the examination and what happens in that space. There are a number of programmes around the country we can learn from, now that we are placing such a focus on this in the strategy. We are working with a couple of ETBs directly in this respect.