Mr. Aaron Mullaniff:

Yes, it is per year. There has been some improvement, which we think is really positive. We commend it. We did a little bit of work with the Minister, Deputy Harris, on that piece as well. The figures have been pretty static, which we would expect through primary and post-primary.

I might just back to the employment piece and then bring in my colleagues. That figure is really frightening when we strip it back in terms of the number of blind and visually impaired people in employment.

In terms of some of the challenges we have encountered, we are aware that 95% of the world's printed information is inaccessible to blind and visually impaired people. We have been doing a lot. We developed an employment training and academia team. We are not funded to do that, but following on from the work in the children and young persons' team, we need to ensure that there is no cliff when kids leave education at 23. We must ensure there is something to talk about when they go to interviews. We have partnered with 26 organisations from a workplace partners' perspective. They have been wonderful. They provide professional experience to those students as well. We have had to set up a dedicated digital equality unit which is looking at websites as well. We found from a study of all of the 600 recruiters in the country that 90% of their websites are inaccessible. In other words, people who are blind or visually impaired cannot apply for a job on them because the buttons are not labelled and there is no basic accessibility either.

There is an interesting statistic that a blind or visually impaired person who makes it through higher and further education still only has the same chances of getting a job as someone who has no qualifications at all. It is really frightening. I will bring in my colleague, Ms O'Dwyer, on assistive technology, tablets, and the aids and various devices that are in play at the moment.