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

Does the Minister of State have any information on the average completion time for craft traineeships? If not, perhaps he could follow up with a written answer. As he said, there are delays from time to time for people who are waiting for their placement or block release. Typically, a course or traineeship may take four years, as the Minister of State stated. Is there any analysis of how long it is taking to train a carpenter, an electrician or whatever craft it may be? Averaged out, do the delays in block release mean that, rather than four years, it is taking five years, six years or whatever the case may be to train an electrician? Does the Minister of State have specific details on the number of people on waiting lists in Cork and the number waiting six months or more?

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