Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 8 November 2023
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation
Skills and Supports Required for Businesses to Meet Decarbonisation Targets: Discussion
Mr. Dave Flynn:
Sure. I will just expand on Mr. Healy's opening comment. Typically, every two years we subject all our programmes to independent evaluation. This is where an economic consultancy will come in and engage directly with the businesses that we support each year. It will get down under the bonnet, as it were, and look at specific impacts in terms of increases in innovation capacity, increased quality of product, increased staff engagement levels and so on. The most recent evaluation, which was published in January, showed that 50% of companies that participated in the programme indicated that the impact of engaging in Skillnet supported training had made significant inroads into the key business areas of staff engagement and innovation and in the context of the quality of products and services. As with any evaluation, there are aspects to be developed and improved over the years, but the scale of impact is consistent with previous evaluations which speaks to a very tangible impact on the ground.
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