John Halligan (Waterford, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I will. Deputy Thomas Byrne spoke about it. The new apprenticeship we started is the insurance practitioner apprenticeship, which has a big take-up. There are also two further programmes, for example, one is in the international financial services, the IFS, which is interesting. The point the Chairman makes is that because there appears to be fewer people unemployed, the take-up among those who are unemployed will be a little less. The biggest take-up for apprenticeships, in particular for basic and starting apprenticeships, has essentially been from people coming from an unemployment base. It is not that the number has dropped, but that it has dropped in a particular group, that is, the unemployed. There has been a bigger uptake from that, however.