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. Ben Friel:

There is also the thing that it is trending in the right direction. When we meet the representatives from the local students' union, everyone is very keen to reach apprentices. My day job is representing all students in the North on their apprenticeship. I am the first to have done that. It is definitely trending in the right direction. Like Mr. O'Mahony said, it is about making sure we know when they start and that the colleges make the effort to tell us about the cohort, that is starts at this time and these are their phases, and invites us to reach out to them. There is a lack of information on our side rather than a lack of trying or wanting to reach those students.

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