Rose Conway-Walsh (Mayo, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I very much welcome this OECD report and look forward to examining it. It is crucial to our economic growth going forward. The national skills input into that will determine how we shape and create the human workforce as we go forward. We also need to be cognisant of the need to join things up. If we are encouraging lifelong education and upskilling of the workforce, we need to look at how we fund part-time education. We also need to look at the interaction between AI and the service industries and how we can create growth there and regional growth right across the country. As we look forward to an all-island economy and how to maximise the potential there, it is important that we have that. That is why I would like to see education included in the North-South Ministerial Council, because it is important that we have a workforce right across the island that can maximise how we address the challenges and the opportunities in the future.

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