Mr. Jim Gibson:

Absolutely. We have engaged with communities around Dublin. Recently I was in St. Andrew's Terrace and I met a young person from the area who had attended Trinity College. I asked whether many young people in that community had the capacity, intellect and ability to participate in third level education and would be interested in social care and social work for our organisation, and that answer was "Yes". I am meeting a group of these young people and we are looking to be more innovative with regard to employing young people who do not have the financial capacity to attend a third level institution. We will take a good look at them to see if they have the potential during a period of employment with us as a family support practitioner and allow them to think long and hard about whether this is a good career opportunity for them. We want to consider secondment. We want to support these young people, but we also want to say to the colleges that we would like to develop a course with block releases because there would be huge benefits to that.