Annie Hoey (Labour) | Oireachtas source

I have one more question around the staffing side of it. We have had different presentations made to this committee about staffing in the industry and making it an attractive career option for people, and to move away from the belief that people would come into it as a seasonal job or just as a job for students. As a State, are we doing enough to train those professional staff to work in this sector? This pertains mostly to the technological universities or the former institutes of technology or the institutes of further education, where a lot of that training happens. Is there any specific training that needs to be developed further, or does the training already there need to be enhanced? I am a spokesperson for further and higher education so I am particularly interested in how we are training people for careers, not just training people to come in and then leave the sector again. What else can be done? Is enough being done? Do the witnesses know of anything that could be done in that regard?