Ms Meadhbh Costello:

Yes, that is exactly the issue. In many cases it is a year to a year and a half to develop a programme but in a lot of other cases it can be a lot longer, such as two to three years. That obviously is too long a wait time. As I may have mentioned, there is a ten-step process currently for the development of a new apprenticeship programme, but sometimes delays can happen before you enter that process, like when you are in dialogue with the consortia but also with the system on whether there is a desire for this apprenticeship to be developed. As such, even before you reach the first stage of that apprenticeship programme you can experience delays. It is about how we can speed up some of that.