Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 16 February 2021
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation
Pre-legislative Scrutiny of the General Scheme of the Employment Permits (Consolidation and Amendment) Bill 2019
Ms Fiona Ward:
I apologise. There is an economic migration group. All the relevant Departments are represented on it, including the Department of Education and the new Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science. We review the evidence that the National Skills Bulletin provides to us, and we examine the evidence as to where the skills are. The evidence is that the occupations on the critical skills list are still in shortage in the State, but because we review the list twice per year there is an opportunity to move occupations onto and off it. We take account of-----
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