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. Paul Healy:

That was a particularly interesting one. We are at full employment in the economy. Every company, or at least most companies, have a staffing challenge of some kind and it is difficult to try and fill vacancies and so on. That programme was offered through what we call our skills connect courses which help people who are seeking work or who wish to make a career switch. The way the programme works is that it is a fully funded programme. We promote the programme heavily, or Wind Energy Ireland does in this case, to try to find people who wish to make that career switch or who are unemployed. It is a fully funded programme that comes with a company placement and all the scaffolding, if you like, that we need to put around somebody to come out with a qualification like that. It is a creative way of dealing with the skills shortfall and challenge that we are seeing generally in the wind energy space, by looking at the unemployed and career switchers.

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