Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 17 December 2019

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community

Traveller Employment: Discussion (Resumed)

Mr. Oein de Bhairdúin:

We have an opportunity to grandparent established skills into the workforce. We were recently working with a man who wanted to become a farrier. He has worked with horses for his entire life. The process of becoming a qualified farrier is quite a long one but there would be repetition in that he would have to learn things that he already knew. One might look at people who already have skills and ask how one can quicken the pace towards them getting the qualification that they have almost achieved already. That would be very doable.