Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 23 March 2021
Select Committee on Education and Skills
Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 26 — Education (Revised)
Vote 45 — Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Revised)
Rose Conway-Walsh (Mayo, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source
There was a backlog before Covid. However, the current backlog is extremely serious. I ask the Minister of State to do everything he can and use the excess in the National Training Fund to ensure that the more than 6,000 apprenticeships to which I refer do not have to be extended beyond four years to six years or whatever. The Minister of State will be acutely aware of the knock-on implications of that.
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