Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 24 May 2022
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills
Future Funding of Higher Education: Discussion (Resumed)
Mr. Michael Hourihan:
Certainly. There is an anomaly in the system in that, for example, with construction plant fitting the Cork MTU campus is the only centre in the country delivering that to phase 4 and phase 6 apprentices and, therefore, if somebody is doing a construction plant fitting apprenticeship in Donegal, for example, the apprentice can only go to one place to do the phase 4 and phase 6 portions, and that is to Cork. There is no other choice.