Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 22 October 2019

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills

Apprenticeships: Discussion

Mr. Andrew Brownlee:

Capital is a matter for the Department but we discuss the issues with it. We make clear that there is demand for these types of courses and we explain the circumstances that individual ETBs are facing. There is a limited amount of capital available. The Department discusses its priorities with us but the decision is not ours to make. We finally have some capital allocated in the national development plan for the next five or six years so there is an opportunity to ask what is really important to develop flagship further education and training facilities that can make people think it is a really good option when they leave school.