Mr. Michael Fitzgerald:

It is all done through the training centres. They are based there, and then from whatever region they are in, they go to college somewhere in the country. They are also attached to the local ESB depot, wherever that depot is. In the south east, they could be in Enniscorthy, Arklow or Waterford, for example, so they are based there.

We have businesses abroad and some of the people who work there are engineers now, or they could be technicians who would have initially come through an apprenticeship. Many people in technical roles in the ESB have come through the apprenticeship and have developed further on in their careers.