Niall Collins (Limerick County, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

To add to the Minister's comments about apprenticeship numbers, it is a key goal of Government for us to foster and promote better gender balance in apprenticeships. We have been very cognisant of this in drafting the apprenticeship action plan. We have instructed the Department, SOLAS and the sections therein to pay particular attention to that. A number of the submissions we received as part of the public consultation to the apprenticeship action plan have reflected that poor gender balance issue, which we are keen to address.