Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 23 April 2024

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills

European Year of Skills 2023: Discussion

11:00 am

Photo of Ruairí Ó MurchúRuairí Ó Murchú (Louth, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I thank everyone for attending. In fairness, we could probably spend an hour dealing with each of the witnesses individually. The theme across the board is the idea of skills education and the multiple route maps or roadmaps to education. Everyone is coming off at a different place.

Ms Healy got the point across on the National Learning Network. My office has dealt with the NLN in Dundalk. People have been in short term and some have been in long term. My notion of what the NLN did was probably somewhat different. It deals with people with disabilities, mental health conditions, brain injuries and special educational needs. The way Ms Healy put it was that she was not necessarily comfortable in the formalised education system to a degree and this is just another route map to a more comfortable setting. Would that be fair to say?

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