Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 10 June 2014

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht

General Scheme of Dublin Docklands Development Authority (Dissolution) Bill 2014: Discussion

3:20 pm

Ms Dolores Wilson:

The Acting Chairman mentioned doing something through education. We have had a schools placement programme in the docklands, which was a good programme for young people leaving school after their leaving certificate to go into high-tech jobs in financial services. Most of them stayed in the programme for a year and the majority of them continued onto full-time jobs. That is one way of getting some of our people into newer companies. There are many young people in our area who are in financial services due to that programme. That is an area we should look at.