Tom Fleming (Kerry South, Independent) | Oireachtas source

7. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will introduce a scheme for early school leavers, given that approximately one in five second level students, from the age of 13 or 14, are currently disengaging from school, whereby they could engage in a three or four year apprenticeship in the skills required by modern manufacturing and service industries for 50% of the time, and they could also continue in school with their peers studying in a core academic curriculum, as the model exists for this very successful vocational training option for students in Germany, under the European baccalaureate vocational model; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21922/15]

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