Ciarán Cannon (Galway East, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The report was a separate process. The report was tasked to look at the apprenticeship model nationally and how we move from our traditional understanding of what the word apprenticeship means. We are trying to modify how one thinks of apprenticeship as being in the construction sector predominantly into other sectors in which we see the economic growth of the future. That process was under way, and we published the outcome yesterday, which makes for very interesting reading. This was simply a budgetary decision taken in very difficult budgetary circumstances.