Marc Ó Cathasaigh (Waterford, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

I have an eye to the clock as I am under time pressure. It is the European Year of Skills. One of the recurring themes of this committee is a focus on further education, and particularly apprentices. We have discussed that cultural handbrake there has been on apprenticeships and that idea of lifelong learning that people are not finished their educational journey at 22, 23 or whatever. The ESB seems to have cracked it, in that it has an apprenticeship programme that, as Ms McGee said, is embedded in its DNA.

Is ESB planning anything to push that idea of European Year of Skills? It is something that happened late last year. Certainly, I, as a committee member, am trying to get my head around what it is that we should be doing as a government to push this idea of a European Year of Skills. Has Mr. Fitzgerald any great ideas for us seeing as the ESB has done so well in it?