Rose Conway-Walsh (Mayo, Sinn Fein)
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As regards education, Mr. McGuinness identifies:

[L]arge gaps in educational attainment, and their implications for productivity, ... have been a major concern and should form a key part of any border poll discourse given that reforms to the education system aimed at improving NI productivity are likely to take time to design and implement.

Has the ESRI identified any all-island educational opportunities in the course of its work that would lead to a reduction in the brain drain, first? Second, do the witnesses think there is merit in including further and higher education in the remit of, say, the North-South Ministerial Council? Third, in that regard, what would the witnesses see as the advantages for having an all-island approach to apprenticeships to target that group that seems to be left behind as well in terms of skills?