Mr. Jack Lynch:

I competed in the cabinet-making competition. Like other speakers, I found when I was in school that apprenticeships were not really pushed at all. All of the focus was on the third level sector. I got sucked into that and I went to college. As I was going from third year into fourth year in college, it struck me that I would have preferred to go down the apprenticeship route. When I was in school, apprenticeship did not seem accessible to me. It seemed a bit too complicated. It was not well enough advertised. It was harder to get into an apprenticeship than to go to college. College was easy to get into because it was a case of filling out the CAO forms and there you go. The other thing seemed a bit harder to me. Basically, that was it.