Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 2 July 2025
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport
Issues Facing the Road Haulage Industry: Irish Road Haulage Association
2:00 am
Mr. Paul Jackman:
Yes, and on the funding, there is a review going on in Brussels of all of the EU's education programmes. That has stalled it because SOLAS is reviewing all of its programmes. There are lots of programmes, including the traineeship, to which funds have not been committed so the contractors have not been engaged. I spoke to one of the contractors yesterday. She has let all of her staff go because there is no work for the next three months due to the funding issue. The two ETBs that contractor was working with cannot give her the go-ahead on the courses, even though the courses are fully booked out.
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