Mr. Aidan Murphy:

Bus Éireann is also in the business of expanding its apprenticeship scheme. There will be new technologies with hybrid buses, hydrogen buses and so on, which will require new expertise. I am sure everyone will have read the article published in The Irish Times yesterday, which highlighted the case of one of our female apprentices, Samantha Kao. We, like Dublin Bus, as Mr. Courtney stated, are anxious to attract as diverse a range of employees as possible into our apprenticeship scheme. The Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, Deputy Harris, visited our Broadstone office recently to highlight the work being done by Bus Éireann to expand its apprenticeship scheme.