Ms Helen McMahon:

Thank you, Deputy. Regarding the enterprise liaison team, we are seeing that client companies are finding it extremely difficult to navigate the system.

It is not because there are not enough offers but because there are a huge amount of offers in the system. There needs to be a bridge created for enterprise. Sometimes that is quite clearly laid out in universities and institutions, and institutes of technology, ITs. In some cases, it is not. It is the same for schools, in that there is not a dedicated enterprise liaison person within a school. For instance, I was part of that STEM group that developed a pathway for enterprise into the school system. We had a beautiful structure in place but there was nobody dedicated to that role to connect to enterprise.