Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 9 October 2025
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science
Apprenticeships: Discussion (Resumed)
2:00 am
Mr. Brian Nolan:
I think the reality is there is not enough pick-up in the consortium-led model. The question to be asked is why this is the case. By the way, I do not have the answer to that either.
There are a lot of learnings. The immediate narrative, though, was that we would move towards one system and that was predominantly a move to the consortium-led approach. Now, maybe that conversation could change and it could perhaps move more towards the other model. It would not be for the sake of winning or losing an argument but about taking the best of both systems. We are 100% supportive of doing that. It is what we want. We want to have the world-class system we have and retain this standard, or improve it if there is any way to do that.
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