Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 2 October 2025

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community

Child Protection and Family Support: Discussion

2:00 am

Ms Sandra McDonagh:

When we are talking about an apprenticeship, we have a pre-apprenticeship course that we have now run in Tullamore and Offaly. A number of years ago, we identified the gap of young people that need to be trained up and try to get back into education. We started up the pre-apprenticeship programme locally. We had it launched last year as the first-ever Traveller-specific pre-apprenticeship programme in the country. Every year, we have a waiting list of about 20 young people who are really looking to-----

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