Paul Daly (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The mammies and daddies of Ireland. In my era, it would have been the mammies. The attitude was that Johnny has to do a degree and the parents dared not mention an apprenticeship. How do we overcome that? Slowly but surely, that is being diluted and we are growing out of it, but an element of it remains. We created that. We pushed it and tried to get everybody into third level education. We created an atmosphere where we in the public wanted more than apprenticeships. We looked for the bells and whistles and a high percentage of people going to third level. We forgot about apprenticeships and left them in our slipstream. We have now come full circle. How do we get back full circle?