 I'm Matt Davie and I'm a fourth year of the Ed. I'm 22 from Sligo and I'm running for the Vice President's position for education and placement. I really want to make a difference. Placement is a really, really big issue, especially for teachers and nurses are a lot out in placement. Business students as well have their own problems, so I really feel passionate about placement. It is even the word placement gives people anxiety, so I want to be that person to help make it better. On the other hand, I particularly want to attack the library. Over-crowding, water fountains, plugs for phones, because if you go to the library or something you will see so many characters left behind. Water fountains, when you're in the middle of studying for exams or doing assignments, the last thing you want to do is have to go down to the bottom floor of the library to fill your water bottle or maybe there's a water fountain that you can't even do it on. Just little simple things like that to make studying, make your exams a lot easier. Placement, anxiety levels, a lot of the characters, especially in teaching, have been struggling with anxiety. It's a really, really big issue, so I hope to really work with the welfare officer, make placement videos beforehand to give people tips and support the mobile counsellor as well for people who can't access the counsellor in college, so I'd be working with the welfare officer as well. I have been with Manus in his office a lot over the last few weeks, at least twice a week, I'd say. Just getting to know what problems people have this year so that I know the types of problems people might come to me next year. Really looking at what he's at, his phone calls, emails, the types of meetings he has to go to, all that sort of thing, everything that John says. Well, the main key issues people are going to be coming to me, but I have several issues that I think are important in there, including on my manifesto. The first one is nurses. They don't spend a lot of time on campus, and I feel they miss out on college experience. So, further all, I propose two nursing appreciation dates, one each semester, so that nurses get the real college experience and just get a good atmosphere around their course and their year. Improved library facilities and printing credits is another point. So, I want to improve sockets, water fendons, really simple things like that around the library, and just sort over and make extra room available for people to study, because when you're coming up to assignment time, exam time, you just need a place to study. The intra portal page needs to be re-adapted, it's completely outdated, as well as having intra-skills workshops so that when they do go to the interview there, as well prepared as they can be to get the best place possible. I want to go to them, as well as them coming to me, but for them to come to me, I feel I need my presence to be felt there. I need to speak to them myself so that they feel comfortable coming to me. I'm just the person they probably have never met before, same as anyone else. You wouldn't want to go up to someone you haven't met before, spend a few minutes travelling. I need to go to them first so that they feel comfortable coming to me. Currently, I'm on placement this year and I am paying an absolute fortune for resources, travel, rent, all that kind of stuff, and it's not just teachers that need expenses, and maybe some form of pay, but other students also.