Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 26 November 2025
Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach
Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 11 - Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation (Supplementary)
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Supplementary)
Vote 14 - State Laboratory (Supplementary)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Supplementary)
Vote 18 - National Shared Services Office (Supplementary)
2:00 am
Gerald Nash (Louth, Labour)
I move to administration, pay and non-pay, under subheads A1 and B1. Reference is made to commitments relating to apprenticeship and traineeship programmes. The OPW always had a strong tradition of engaging apprentices in stonemasonry and other disciplines. Will the Minister of State talk us through where the OPW is at the moment, the numbers of apprentices on the books, and the various crafts that they are engaged in, if he has the information to hand?
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