Mairéad Farrell (Galway West, Sinn Fein)
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On the back of this, I may submit parliamentary questions seeking the waiting times in different areas. I appreciate the response. We have people with their lives on hold. We need to think about how we can stop people from emigrating. We very clearly need people who can do construction at this time.

It is quite exciting that the opening statement refers to emerging areas such as cybersecurity. It also mentioned looking into the future world of work and green skills. I was in Scotland last week with another committee looking at the potential of renewable energy. I am not going to claim I am an expert by any means but it was interesting. One place we visited had a control centre for renewable energy and offshore wind. The manager spoke of how they were looking at building an apprenticeship model for that kind of work. Is that being considered here?