Patrick O'Donovan (Limerick County, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I think the Deputy needs to take solace and comfort from the fact that a substantial amount of additional money, €67 million, was put into this in the previous budget. One of the identifiers is the number of additional tutors now working in this area who were not working in it previously and whom we need to sign off people in order that they can become skilled craftspersons in their own right. Oftentimes when I am in this Chamber, I listen to people say, "If you are saying you are going to build 35,000 houses, I am going to build 65,000 houses." I often muse to myself how they are going to build them unless they have the capacity in the workforce. An awful lot of that is just picking numbers out of the sky to facilitate a news headline without any real backup figures. If you talk to SOLAS, our Department and the ETBs, they are working flat out to try to make sure people are-----

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