Mr. Aebhric McGibney:

At a regional level, Dublin Chamber has a representative on the Dublin Regional Skills Forum, which provides a forum to connect further and higher education institutions with business. The idea is to indicate what skills are needed and to target companies to find out the opportunities available from educational institutions. There are good structures. There is one person in the Dublin Regional Skills Forum who deals with the county of Dublin. This comes up in other areas. It is probably similar in other parts of the country. It is not hugely resourced. At a chambers level we have good relations with TU Dublin and, playing my regional card, Dublin lays claim to the three major universities, including TU Dublin and DCU, and we will even take Maynooth if we can have it, as a source of labour. Geography is not the only thing; all of the universities are important to business anywhere in Ireland. You want that relationship with every university and further and higher education institute.