Joanna Tuffy (Dublin Mid West, Labour)
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I thank everyone. We will continue to explore this. Separately we will have a meeting hopefully when the apprenticeship review is published. That will also be relevant to this. As a select committee, and particularly the two Deputies here, we would have dealt with the legislation which established SOLAS and the ETBs. That is a new phase in our education system. At the same time it builds on all the measures there such as the VECs, City & Guilds and the community providers. It is bringing it all together and making it more coherent. I am not saying it was not coherent before, but there is an issue about joining it all up together so all parts complement each other. I found today's discussion very helpful. We lost people along the way because we had votes, other meetings and matters we had to attend to. As a committee we will examine what we debated here today and will try to build on that. I thank the witnesses, members and Members in the Gallery.