Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 3 February 2015
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation
Female Entrepreneurship, Women in Tech Industries, Skills Needs and Balanced Regional Development: Enterprise Ireland
1:40 pm
Ms Julie Sinnamon:
In the DCU Ryan Academy female propeller programme, the mentors are both male and female. At present, we have 392 mentors, of whom 53 are female. As for our mentoring assignments, approximately 600 assignments are being carried out at present, of which 165 involve women being mentored by a male or female mix, which largely is male. All our mentors are categorised by their skills set and experience.
We will try to find the best match between the need and the pool of mentors we have.