Mr. William Beausang:

We will ensure the Deputy gets that information.

Our World Skills Ireland competition is a really good event for demonstrating to people the plethora of roles that are out there that people do not have an awareness of in terms of career options. I do not want to overstate what we know or what is projected in terms of the future world of work because people will change career many times. Obviously people embark on a learning journey, a particular interest or programme and, perhaps, a particular career. What we need and try to focus on, both in HE and FET, is to ensure that people have the core capacities that they will need to be successful in that future world of work.

I will briefly reference a piece of work the ESRI is completing for us at the moment. The ESRI assessed some really high-tech areas where jobs are advertised at present, such as blockchain, AI and automation. The ESRI analysed 32,000 jobs on LinkedIn and assessed that there are roles that people are looking for that have very heavy technical skills but there is a huge need for business skills and for what is called transferable human skills. A school leaver, looking at FET or HE, or someone looking at a career change, probably would not have an awareness, particularly a career changer, that he or she already has a bank of skills that are very relevant in what might, on the face of it, look like a very high-tech area.