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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with Strive (19 May 2022)
Rose Conway-Walsh: I will ask about apprenticeships because we have been looking at them here. We want to encourage more people into apprenticeships, not least because we have considerable challenges in workforce planning. We are looking at apprenticeship models across the island. Is it feasible for somebody to start an apprenticeship in one area and complete it in another?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with Strive (19 May 2022)
Rose Conway-Walsh: There are great job opportunities in apprenticeships. We are compiling a report on student mobility. We know that even in terms of education, if people can stay in there own communities or are as connected as possible to them, they are likely to bring about positive change. It has an impact. I look forward to visiting Strive with the committee. It is a very good suggestion by the Chair....
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Future Funding of Higher Education: Discussion (Resumed) (24 May 2022)
Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank the witnesses for being here and for their opening statements. This is a good opportunity for the committee to talk to the apprentices so I will focus my first questions on that area. Mr. McSherry is a bricklayer apprentice. Is he finished his apprenticeship?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Future Funding of Higher Education: Discussion (Resumed) (24 May 2022)
Rose Conway-Walsh: How long will the apprenticeship have taken from start to finish?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Future Funding of Higher Education: Discussion (Resumed) (24 May 2022)
Rose Conway-Walsh: That is a real challenge for us. Obviously, Mr. McSherry did not envisage that when he started out and it would have impacted on his earnings. Did that mean he went nearly a year on reduced wages?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Future Funding of Higher Education: Discussion (Resumed) (24 May 2022)
Rose Conway-Walsh: I can imagine it would be. I am delighted Mr. McSherry chose that particular apprenticeship because we have not had big numbers of new apprentice bricklayers entering the system. There were 473 brickie apprentices in the register in 2006 and only 56 in 2020. We often get the overall figures but we need to dig a bit deeper to be able to see what is going on. Why does Mr. McSherry think...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Future Funding of Higher Education: Discussion (Resumed) (24 May 2022)
Rose Conway-Walsh: Is there anything that we could do to attract more people to work as bricklayers? It is a huge problem for us as a country or economy. There are all these projections for building houses but if we have no people to build them we will be in dire straits. Are there things we could do to make it easier for apprentices?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Future Funding of Higher Education: Discussion (Resumed) (24 May 2022)
Rose Conway-Walsh: I know I am putting Mr. McSherry on the spot.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Future Funding of Higher Education: Discussion (Resumed) (24 May 2022)
Rose Conway-Walsh: Thinking of the last six to 12 months with inflation, the cost of living, accommodation and the extra expenses, have the witnesses noticed a difference in participation in apprenticeships? Is it getting more difficult having to put fuel in the van and so on?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Future Funding of Higher Education: Discussion (Resumed) (24 May 2022)
Rose Conway-Walsh: Have the others experienced difficulties with the cost of living and the costs associated with doing the apprenticeship? Let us take the fees for the off-the-job training or accommodation, for example. Are their apprenticeships near where they live or do they have to travel or get accommodation?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Future Funding of Higher Education: Discussion (Resumed) (24 May 2022)
Rose Conway-Walsh: The class started with 20 and dropped to four.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Future Funding of Higher Education: Discussion (Resumed) (24 May 2022)
Rose Conway-Walsh: Sorry, what was Ms Leane's apprenticeship again?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Future Funding of Higher Education: Discussion (Resumed) (24 May 2022)
Rose Conway-Walsh: Why does Ms Leane think that such a large number dropped out?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Future Funding of Higher Education: Discussion (Resumed) (24 May 2022)
Rose Conway-Walsh: That is interesting. I heard this morning on the radio about a restaurant in Lisselton that is closing down. There is such a demand for chefs and for kitchen staff. It is having a great impact on the hospitality sector. People are crying out for chefs. I hear what Ms Leane is saying about employers for apprenticeships during their learning experience-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Future Funding of Higher Education: Discussion (Resumed) (24 May 2022)
Rose Conway-Walsh: Yes, so that people will stay.
- Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flexible Work Practices (31 May 2022)
Rose Conway-Walsh: 187. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will consider allowing civil servants who moved from Dublin to rural Ireland due to the pandemic the opportunity to continue to work remotely or facilitate a transfer to work from a local office within their county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27467/22]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (31 May 2022)
Rose Conway-Walsh: 526. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if employers are required to pay apprentices based on time served rather than the phase of the apprenticeship; the way that his Department will ensure that employers follow this practice; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28033/22]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (31 May 2022)
Rose Conway-Walsh: 527. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of craft apprentices who have been registered for over four or two years in the cases of those registered on two-year apprenticeships in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27278/22]