Ms Fionnuala Healy:

Furthermore, we definitely need to seek early involvement. As both of my parents worked in the public sector, they were risk averse and their level of understanding and support was based on their experience. If I had gone in early and spent some time as a student in secondary school or at third level, I would have seen a lot more about how things worked and how they did not. That also helps the cultural change towards acceptance that sometimes it does not work. A lot of the time people are afraid of failure because they have not seen enough of it and it is not socially acceptable. That change will happen as one has more exposure to it and it will not be such a topic of gossip or something to be afraid of.