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:

To Mr. Healy's and Ms Donnery's point, that was a single example of a programme aimed at people who want to get back into the workplace, but the vast majority of programmes that will be delivered by Green Tech Skillnet are for people who are in employment and who need upskilling in terms of technical skills to do onshore and offshore wind. The programmes will deliver a greater understanding and awareness of regulation policy, changes coming down the tracks and so on. That particular network is working closely with the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science and the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications around the development of a research report that will actually begin to quantify the types of skills that will be needed for offshore to be able to deliver that at scale over the years ahead. That report is due to be published by the end of this year.

I will go back to a point Senator Garvey touched on around the impacts in terms of existing programmes and courses. That research piece will help to bring forward changes that are needed to research.

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