Mr. Aebhric McGibney:

To echo what Ms Costello said about the speed of adjustment, there is a similar issue with the way visas are allocated. We have a category for ICT, but not AI or something. ICT is too broad a category now for visas. The ability sometimes of the system to respond to the speed with which areas of education are developing needs to be sped up. Companies will be at the coalface and have a better idea of particular areas. They are then feeding back into the system to get a response.

There is a different way to think about this. While I am not endorsing any particular consortium by any means, I am aware that a previous committee, reporting to the Department of enterprise, suggested that we should have an apprenticeship for entrepreneurs. That is an interesting idea. It is a kind of a skill that we like to see. It was not a Government policy, just to cover any members. It was an idea that was fed into the system. How would something like that be delivered? If someone is working with their mum and dad in a shoe shop but they do not see their future there - maybe they want to be the next tech unicorn or whatever - it is trying to tie some of the traditional ways of linking it to an employment or an area. We need to be more flexible sometimes in the approach. My challenge, perhaps when others come into the group, is how we allow for different ways of thinking about a goal that we might all think is a good idea, such as entrepreneur apprentices.