Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 30 April 2024

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills

European Year of Skills 2023: Discussion (Resumed)

Mr. Andrew Brownlee:

Our three priority trades are electrical, plumbing and carpentry and joinery. Therefore, most of the new workshops are in those spaces, especially electrical because that is where the massive backlog is. There are extensions in County Donegal. There is a major ramp-up in the Cambridge building in Galway, for example, and Waterford and Wexford. Techniform has opened in Waterford city. There are all these new workshops opening on a monthly basis at the moment to try to expand that capacity.