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

Photo of Erin McGreehanErin McGreehan (Louth, Fianna Fail)

Absolutely. Mr. Talbot mentioned Dundalk Chamber and Newry Chamber. As someone from the area, they do incredible work. He also mentioned 3D houses. We have those 3D-printed houses in Dundalk. For that work, the apprenticeship skills came from interaction with Skillnet, the ETBs and with industry. It is an example how an ambition, a need and the agencies came together to make things work and now we have those. Let us hope we have more projects around the country because they are very efficient and also they are some of the best of Louth.

On behalf of the committee I thank you all. We have had a very good session on how we can look at our future skills, the OECD reports and how we can, as a committee, push for what we want.

We want an ambitious, young and indeed older workforce to reskill and upskill. I thank the witnesses for their engagement and knowledge and for sharing that with us today. We will allow them to depart before moving into private session to deal with housekeeping matters. Is that agreed? Agreed.

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