Rose Conway-Walsh (Mayo, Sinn Fein)
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This point is about the apprenticeship system that the ESB uses. I think it is a really good model. There are 300 apprentices registered at the moment with the ESB and 25% of them are female, a figure that I would like to see increase. Given the huge demand for the skills that apprenticeships can deliver, what are the main barriers to increasing registration in the private and semi-State public sectors because not everybody has the ESB model? What can they learn from the ESB in order to be able to increase the numbers because we are missing our targets all the time regarding apprenticeships?