Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 25 May 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection

Community Employment Programme: SIPTU

Ms Michele Rohan:

Exactly, and soccer. The grass must be cut twice a week for soccer - hail, rain or snow. In response to what Deputy Paul Donnelly said about the training and the courses that are available, there is a younger cohort of people who really want to do the courses to which the Deputy referred but do not want to do a degree for four years. They may have left school a little early. Those courses are available. Strength and conditioning is huge at the moment. Every club in the country is looking for people trained in strength and conditioning but cannot afford to pay them. The chap or the girl who does such a course cannot get a job. I have a son who has done four years of a degree in it, but the jobs are not there. It is possible, however, to get perhaps younger people, 18-year-olds or 19-year-olds or early school leavers, onto such courses alongside business courses. Most such courses come with business courses, so the students get two different strains. They can do a strength and conditioning course but they need the business head to be able to promote themselves as well as all the social media they need to go along with - Instagram, Facebook, you name it. It is endless. A huge number of younger people come onto such schemes and are happy to do so.

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