Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 11 October 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation

Skills and Apprenticeship Landscape in Ireland: Institute of Physics

Dr. Michael Kyle:

Artificial intelligence can be a valuable research tool but it must be managed properly, in the same way that you look up an online database of journals for articles. There is a way to do it but we are still in the early stages.

To address the Deputy's three questions, I believe there were three elements to what he was asking about. The first was about a hub. I see that there was in the budget an allocation of funding for expanding further education and training colleges or centres. I believe ten have been set up in the country. These could comprise an ideal platform for the provision of apprenticeship training, particularly in physics. I did notice that in the budget-----

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