Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 19 February 2013

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation

ICT Skills Report: Discussion

1:45 pm

Mr. Sean O'Sullivan:

I will turn some of that to my colleagues. The quality of Irish graduates from technological universities was unparalleled in the 1980s and 1990s. They had a fantastic reputation as some of the best and brightest who chose these fields of study. That trend changed dramatically. The committee's report pointed out that Ireland is now 26th out of EU countries - I am not sure the total number of countries.