Dr. Conor McGuckin:

We have an example of our students being educated and work-ready. Ms Ringwood has mentioned her business partner network. We have internships and mentors. They lead to real, proper jobs. It goes way beyond corporate social responsibility, CSR, and equality, diversity and inclusion, EDI. These are real, proper jobs. We need a whole-of-government approach. We move from having a job to the student having a career, but then if students get a promotion, they might not want it, because they would lose medical cards and benefits, and there would be other issues. All the success we are getting nudges on the issue on. We were not here 20 or 30 years ago, but inclusion in education is working. They are coming through primary, post-primary, further and higher education, and they are rightly asking where their job, their career and the supports they need are, to pay their taxes and be members of society, the same as their brothers, sisters, parents, and everyone else. That is where we are now and we need to marry in those again. We talked about health and education, but we have welfare and everything else too.