Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 4 February 2015

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection

National Strategy and Framework for Higher Education: Higher Education Authority

1:00 pm

Mr. Fergal Costello:

We would hope there would be an element of that. At the same time, we are seeing evidence that as the economy recovers, companies which had stopped investing in staff training because of the cost are now coming back in. Therefore, there are some going out and some coming in. To be honest, the rise in the demographic, in the number of school leavers, is so big that there is no chance at all we will be able to accommodate it. It is a significant additional pressure coming through.