Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 8 November 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Education and Upskilling in the Agriculture Sector

Dr. Stan Lalor:

-----we would be breaking into the 2,000. We are probably doing north of 80% of the overall delivery of the vocational level qualification. There is probably an intake of 300 or 400 across the country into degree courses. A lot of those are feeding industry and a relatively small number come back into the farming pool. For round numbers on capacity in the system, we need in the order of 3,000 people coming into the system every year, looking at it from a lifetime of farming perspective.