Mr. Ollie O'Connor:

In response to Deputy Berry, we linked up with Queen's University in Belfast and had a couple of meetings. We found out that it would have cost us €200,000 to conduct the research. That is why it is back on the agenda with the Department. Maybe one of the universities here will do the research. It would be a great thing for a first-year PhD student to do because nobody has done it before.

We have spoken about Carlow, which is brilliant. As someone who left school after the intermediate certificate and now has a master's degree, I can say that the education I got when studying for my master's was nothing like the education I got in the Defence Forces. PDFORRA paid for that. One of our members, now on the board, left the Defence Forces after two years. He was a private. He now has an international public relations firm. He is providing public relations services to us at the moment on a pro bonobasis. He has also set up a mentoring scheme under which young veterans leaving the Defence Forces would be given a mentor to show them how things work on the other side of the gate. We are only at the early stages of that scheme but hopefully it will work in some way.