Paul Kehoe (Wexford, Fine Gael)
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I thank Senator Dolan. I have a few questions for Mr. English and the rest of the panel. Are we making enough of the significance of Worldskills Ireland and its being running concurrently? Mr. McLoughlin spoke about apprenticeships not being promoted in secondary schools. There is an opportunity now that we have the Worldskills Ireland programme in the RDS for two years. It is a big issue. Do our guests believe we have made enough of it in the context of promoting apprenticeships in secondary schools? I told the former Minister, now Taoiseach, Deputy Harris, that I believe the fall-down is the promotion of apprenticeships in schools. I will ask Mr. McLoughlin his view on that in a few seconds but perhaps Mr. English will answer that initially.