Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 9 October 2025

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science

Apprenticeships: Discussion (Resumed)

2:00 am

Mr. Brian Nolan:

At a basic level, we have a facility through the union - it is even available on our website - for any individual to register for union jobs. That is not to take my job in the union, but to look for a job within a part of industry where they will get an employer who will pay correctly, put them on the pension, register them as apprentices, and so forth. We invite people who would not yet be members of the union, in the case of apprenticeship, to come forward and do that. We take the opportunity to encourage them to join the union as well. We are not doing anything in this to profit other than that the individual gets the apprenticeship. We have that facility. We assist everywhere and anywhere.