Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 23 April 2024

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills

European Year of Skills 2023: Discussion

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That is it. Society and the whole system loses out on that basis. That is the bit that was sold to me - whether it is somebody getting back into the system and being facilitated into work or education or whether, as Ms Healy said, the education system is not accessible to somebody.

Ms Bird spoke about the fact that the NLN is at 2011 rates. I have seen the benefits and what NLN can do. It is that idea of what we can do to help, how to make this more sustainable and how to get a better bang for buck. I think everyone will have been particularly taken that Ms Healy got her diagnosis within the NLN.