Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 30 April 2024

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills

European Year of Skills 2023: Discussion (Resumed)

Mr. Andrew Brownlee:

They are the most successful apprenticeships. They are the ones that really resonated with the employer base and so they have taken on hundreds and thousands, whereas some of the others are more niche. They were never intended to generate more than 30 or 40 per year. Some have just not been as successful in terms of driving demand. This is the nature of any kind of educational offering. The ones mentioned are the most successful because people want to do them and employers want to take the people on.