Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 8 November 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Education and Upskilling in the Agriculture Sector

Dr. Stan Lalor:

I might just come in there on the numbers. Dr. Butler has told us that across the board, there are around 100,000 in full-time education in the system at any one time. Looking across the board at the overall intake, we have 130,000 farmers with herd numbers in the country at the moment. Looking at those over a 40-year timescale, which is probably longer than it should be but shorter than it really is, we need about 3,000 spaces every year in terms of capacity on a 40-year turnover at steady-state numbers. That is where the numbers are at the moment. Taking not just full-time but also distance and part-time learning on board-----

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