Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 1 October 2025

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

Apprenticeships: Discussion

2:00 am

Mr. Ian Talbot:

The story Mr. McGibney told earlier about Jim Meade is great. You can make it all the way, you just need the right drive and motivation. You need to get people on the ladder. At the moment we are pretty much at a full employment economy. We do not know what is going to come next. The world is in such a strange place at the moment. The apparent aversion in America to wind farms could be an opportunity for us to make the most of our potential opportunity. There could be people who thought they would sell wind turbines to America who can now sell them to us, for example. We need to get a move on with making some of these key decisions and getting that message out there that will encourage companies to invest even more.

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