Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 24 January 2024
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills
Update on Key Issues: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science
Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source
-----and is up quite significantly. SOLAS has spoken about this publicly and has produced figures on it. In general, the number of people doing PLC courses has risen, the trend is rising and is likely to continue to rise because of the demographics. I am happy to try to get under the bonnet of this and I do not want to interrupt the Deputy's question. I met Education and Training Boards Ireland, ETBI, the representative group for the ETBs last week and I would consider that we have very good engagement with Longford and Westmeath Education and Training Board. There is an excellent chief executive there, Ms Liz Lavery. Mullingar, in the Deputy's constituency, has been chosen to host the new centre of excellence for electronic or e-vehicles so-----
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