Paul Kehoe (Wexford, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I will ask the representatives about their experience of how we promote apprenticeships. Do students see an apprenticeship as difficult, hard work? Do they wish to work in offices and have a 9 to 5? The student has totally changed from my time or the representatives' time. We have a more softened society now, with our younger generation. When I was younger, as I presume was the case for many people here, one had to get out at 16 years of age. We do not see that now. I do not wish to use some of the phrases one hears about students today, but why are we not seeing more students go into apprenticeships?