Mr. Gerard Brady:

The national training fund continues to have a surplus of over €2 billion, so the issue is not a lack of funding. Employers have paid into those funds. There is still funding available where more training could be part of that solution. From an employer perspective, the main challenges include the terms of the wage subsidy scheme. To be fair, some of these have been fixed in the past year. They were such that if a person worked more or less than a certain number of hours, they fell out of the scheme completely.