Ms Lucianne Bird:

The Deputy is quite right that we are working with a diverse range of students. They include people for whom the labour market is distant for a variety of reasons, such as intellectual disability or enduring mental health conditions, or people who are neurodivergency. Increasingly we are seeing cases similar to Ms Healy's, where people have come out of mainstream education and do not have a qualification. They have not attained examination results and do not have a pathway. That is a particular group. Approximately 60% of students who come to us are in the 16 to 25 age group. It is a critical pool of talent for the labour market. Our services are education-focused and QQI courses, but they are education-plus. They are education plus intervention, plus support, plus wrapping the educational programme around the person and giving every person the best opportunity to succeed.