Pádraig O'Sullivan (Cork North Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

If I may I have one last supplementary question for the Minister. It is outside of the question I asked about retrofitting. I was recently out canvassing in a small village in Cork called Grenagh. I met an apprentice mechanic on the door and we had a good chat about how he had left a previous college course and decided he would do this apprenticeship. As he told me about the difficulties he had and getting back on to that course he portrayed to me a big difference between for example in his case a potential mechanics' stipend versus somebody doing an electrician's apprenticeship. I am wondering if any review is envisaged for those kinds of payments or stipends for people in those fields? I am not saying that one is more important than the other but we need to provide an acceptable amount of money that will encourage or attract people to the various fields. We are quite short in the area of mechanics so I am wondering if any review is due on that also.

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