Paul Kehoe (Wexford, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Mr. Twomey has appeared before the committee before. People experience a financial strain when they try to do an apprenticeship and keep a car on the road, and pay for accommodation and associated costs. In Dublin there is a greater financial pressure to pay for accommodation than down the country although I think that rent is nearly the same all over the country in the past 12 to 24 months. Do Mr. Twomey and Mr. McSherry believe that more people would undertake an apprenticeship if they qualified for grant assistance, etc. in the same way as third level students?