Mr. Paul Crone:

At the moment there are two places where those teachers are trained. One is in Limerick and the other is Letterfrack. There is a particular shortage of all teachers at the moment, especially in those subjects. Because of the location of the training of those teachers, it is a particular issue trying to entice them to come here to the east coast. That is potentially something that needs to be addressed around people who have qualifications in construction or whatever who could retrain or do a professional master's in education to be able to retrain as a teacher. There are shortages of all teachers and at the moment, especially in what I would call the practical subjects, and I would include home economics in that, there are particular issues in attracting them to the east coast.