Aidan Davitt (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

It started in 2014 or 2015. SOLAS has been working at it since 2014 so I am curious about how we can improve the figures. They are shocking from my point of view as an employer. The course the chap working with me is on was three times oversubscribed. It might be even greater because I am only aware of the situation in Dublin. It could be the same in Cork or possibly greater again. Cork ended up taking a few extra people as its class might be bigger. Is it due to budgets, not enough tutors or that we are slow coming to the game? If we have been at it for five years, I do not understand why that would be the case. I realise auctioneering is a newer course, as are the insurance and banking courses, but I understand that it is also still hard to get places in some of the wet trades. It is just not straightforward. Why is that the case?