Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 25 June 2025

Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science

Review of Action Plan for Apprenticeship 2021-2025: Discussion

2:00 am

Mr. Andrew Brownlee:

Dr. Trant has driven a lot of those access initiatives so I will hand over to her in a second. Part of the message that we hope to get across today is that we cannot separate the apprenticeship stuff from the wider further education and training activity. That is so important, particularly when we are talking about access and inclusion, to getting people in the door, into a learning environment and on a pathway that can take them into apprenticeship or into really interesting areas of work. One in ten adults in Ireland is involved in further education and training, an apprenticeship or a construction skills team. It has grown by about one third over the last five years and that is a really important footprint that we can build on now.

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