Kevin Humphreys (Labour) | Oireachtas source

That is where the institutes of technology and the education and training boards can play a role in designing educational courses for people who are employed. I have seen this being carried out in a factory or an office where a certain amount of time was set aside for such upskilling. I know of one company that set aside two hours to facilitate its staff on the packing lines attending for training with the Institute of Technology, Tallaght to upskill and it was based on the condition that the employer would give the staff two hours of employment time if the staff gave two hours on a voluntary basis, and in that way four hours was provided in upskilling. We need to be more imaginative now with the change with an upturn in the economy and not wait until we reach the peak in that upturn to do it. I apologise as I must leave now to raise a matter on the Order of Business in the Seanad.