Rose Conway-Walsh (Mayo, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I can imagine it would be. I am delighted Mr. McSherry chose that particular apprenticeship because we have not had big numbers of new apprentice bricklayers entering the system. There were 473 brickie apprentices in the register in 2006 and only 56 in 2020. We often get the overall figures but we need to dig a bit deeper to be able to see what is going on. Why does Mr. McSherry think that number is so low? What needs to be done to attract more people into the bricklaying apprenticeship? What can we do?