Mr. Mark Fielding:

I would never forget Senator Quinn. On the language issue, we keep coming across the fact that while we talk in terms of how brilliant it would be to have Mandarin or Portuguese, the difficulty is that our third level institutes do not have the teachers and only teach what they know. They teach German and French and the fact that industry is looking for graduates with Mandarin or Portuguese is just tough for industry. We need to get our third level institutes up to speed on this issue as it is an issue that keeps arising.

We will always have the issue of the fear of failure versus the security of a good safe job. This is the natural reaction of a parent. It is probably good we do not have so many career guidance teachers now, because they would never talk of entrepreneurship as a career path. The attitude was almost, "there be dragons". Senator White put her finger on the issue of the culture in Ireland and entrepreneurship. The culture is changing slowly but surely, but entrepreneurs are regarded as about one step up from the black economy. When we go to talk to civil servants about any kind of initiative, their first concern is to discover what loophole we are trying to get through in this case.