Mr. Alan McGrath:

Yes. It is a trend to attract the age group mentioned and there are two initiatives. One is called Skills to Compete, which is an umbrella term for a range of courses. The initiative is generally focused on people who are unemployed and there is a particular focus on increasing digital skills. These are people who are unemployed but seek to go back into employment.

Skills to Advance is another programme, which is for people in employment. It is available to businesses or, indeed, direct to employees. Again, there is a suite of courses, including courses on digital skills and customer service. Digital skills, pharma and those kind of things are very important.

Increasingly, this age group may have worked in areas where a lot of their work, or the businesses behind them, are automated now; these are automated services that we all use every day. Our interventions create an opportunity for these people to get a set of skills that will allow them to stay in that business but maybe in a different role, a different area or in an enhanced role or, indeed, to completely change and transition into a new area of employment. There is dedicated work done with that age group, under those initiatives, to engage with them. There are 16 education and training boards located across the country. I urge these people to reach out to their local education and training board and the board will take it from there.