Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 12 October 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills

Education Issues: Engagement with the Minister for Education

Photo of Norma FoleyNorma Foley (Kerry, Fianna Fail)
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We have run significant and successful campaigns every year to promote teaching as a preferred career. In fact, we have seen year-on-year increases in the number of applicants via the Central Applications Office, CAO, and that is a positive. At post-primary level, there has been an increase of almost 17%, with an increase of just short of 10% across the board.

I do not have any control over private colleges, as the Deputy will appreciate. That is a private enterprise-----