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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