Maeve O'Connell (Dublin Rathdown, Fine Gael)

I thank the Minister of State. I will come back to the bursary again. Are there specific sectors where the uptake was more than others? Is there thus an opportunity to target other sectors with low representation, particularly of women? I agree and assumed hairdressing was the one area where there might be a balance to be struck. Are there learnings from sectors which may have been more successful in taking advantage of that bursary that can be applied to other sectors to try to encourage more women's participation? I agree, we are starting from a very low base. The numbers are moving in the right direction but the target of a 124% increase in two years is very ambitious and I would like to see that we have the measures in place to help us to achieve that.

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