Professor John O'Brennan:

I completely agree. When the Government produced this strategy last year, I felt it was looking for fast-track options and not addressing the deeper structural issue that has emerged over time. I can perfectly understand this, faced with the drop that we are looking at by 2025 but the Deputy is right. Those measures may well help. I am not saying they should not be don but in the longer term, we would be much better served by addressing the structural issues that do not provide enough incentives for talented young people to think about offering themselves for an EU track.