Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 27 February 2024

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills

North-South Student Mobility: Discussion (Resumed)

Photo of Mairead FarrellMairead Farrell (Galway West, Sinn Fein)
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In respect of phase 2, two things arise. Are specific craft apprenticeships going to the North in terms of the phase 2 capacity? Mr. Brownlee mentioned short-term capacity for phase 2 to deal with the backlog. Is that something he can envisage as being longer term in the sense of that collaboration? Obviously if there is a backlog now, the concern is that were that capacity to be removed for phase 2, it may come back. Also, were a similar situation to happen in the North, could they use the South?