Joanna Tuffy (Dublin Mid West, Labour) | Oireachtas source

That is fair enough. I agree that there is a need to develop the apprenticeship system, but I do not agree with the idea that some people are not suitable for university or for third level and should instead be in apprenticeships. People do not get the points for certain courses for various reasons. Perhaps they were disadvantaged from the outset, right back to when they were three years of age. Everybody should have an opportunity to go to university or third level college at some stage of their lives, whenever it suits them or they want to do it. If they want to look at a bit of medicine at one stage of their lives and a bit of history or social science at another stage, my feeling is that they should be able to do so.