Dr. Gijs van Houten:

This is slightly outside my area. In preparation for the meeting, I went through a couple of reports that my colleagues wrote on labour shortages.

As I understand, Ireland is actually one of the countries that is more open-minded when it comes to issuing work permits. In that sense, as a country, Ireland is doing more than most. Obviously, if we have shortages, people need to come from somewhere. There are three ways of doing it: you can train up new people; you can look at your existing workforce to see if people have more to offer than we are aware of, which is along the lines of what I talked about in my contribution; or you can seek to get people in from abroad and make it easier to access work permits but I am not sure that answers the question. It is a solution. It is, of course, a political decision to do so.