Ms Lisa Marie Clinton:

Project SEARCH is a unique programme which works with the schools, local employers, vocational rehabilitation and a support employment agency. Here they build a relationship with a host site. The example here in Ireland is Naas hospital which has a classroom, generally with 12 internships. It is based in that site in that hospital. Through rotation they learn the skills and duties based on that employer. It is removing them from school and putting them in a work placement. We mentioned the success rate afterwards. Again, with avail they are augmenting what they are doing to get that acceleration of independence. Yesterday, the UK launched a national internship day. There are 100 sites with a goal to get 10,000 individuals into employment by 2030. Obviously, we would like to do more and funding might be a challenge for Ireland. As has been mentioned here, employers are interested and want to do more. I would like to us to be able to form those partnerships and this could be a potential model.