Mary Butler (Waterford, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I welcome Ms Laura Regan and congratulate her on completing her four-year electrician apprenticeship with the ESB. She is now a qualified electrician and has secured a full-time job with the ESB. I also welcome Mr. Paddy Power. He is from Wexford and he is in the final year of his three-year insurance apprenticeship that will lead to a level 8 degree. He was part of the first intake of students participating in the insurance apprenticeship programme. I shall not read the note on privilege pertaining to the Defamation Act 2009 because the witnesses were present when I read it into the record earlier. I shall refer to the witnesses by their first names, if that is okay, and ask Laura to briefly outline her apprenticeship and career.