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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Ireland's Skills Needs: Discussion (13 Nov 2018)
Mary Butler: Okay.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Ireland's Skills Needs: Discussion (13 Nov 2018)
Mary Butler: For information purposes, the Low Pay Commission now comes within the remit of the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection; therefore, there is a cross-over in many areas.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Ireland's Skills Needs: Discussion (13 Nov 2018)
Mary Butler: Yes. I thank the Senator.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Ireland's Skills Needs: Discussion (13 Nov 2018)
Mary Butler: I think the point Deputy Kelleher is trying to make is that someone who is a bricklayer or blocklayer for 30 years can do it until they are 50 but one would hope that they can maybe take on another role of inspection. They may be able to move on.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Ireland's Skills Needs: Discussion (13 Nov 2018)
Mary Butler: Go raibh maith agat. I thank the witnesses for attending. It was very informative. We have some further sessions in this area, following which we will produce a document. The witnesses might like to come back for the launch of that document. We will suspend to allow the next witnesses to take their seats.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Ireland's Skills Needs: Discussion (13 Nov 2018)
Mary Butler: I welcome from the Irish Business and Employers Confederation, IBEC, Mr. Tony Donohoe, head of education and social policy; Ms Una Fitzpatrick, director, Technology Ireland; Ms Sinead Keogh, director, medtech and engineering; Ms Claire McGee, senior innovation and education executive; and Ms Siobhan Dean, BioPharmaChem Ireland executive. This is the second session of our meeting to discuss...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Ireland's Skills Needs: Discussion (13 Nov 2018)
Mary Butler: Excuse me, I ask witnesses to turn off their mobile phones because they interfere with the recording equipment.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Ireland's Skills Needs: Discussion (13 Nov 2018)
Mary Butler: I thank Mr. Donohoe. I will open the forum to questions and I myself might kick off. Deputy Kelleher brought a motion on apprenticeships through the Dáil last week. It is timely that we had that motion last week and that we are here discussing the matter today. For the first six months of this year, the committee put a great deal of effort into addressing the cost of doing...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Ireland's Skills Needs: Discussion (13 Nov 2018)
Mary Butler: May I interject? Is it just level 6 that they could not-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Ireland's Skills Needs: Discussion (13 Nov 2018)
Mary Butler: Would Ms McGee mind sharing with us what types of apprenticeships they went on to?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Ireland's Skills Needs: Discussion (13 Nov 2018)
Mary Butler: I will interject again. There is interference again on the microphones and that is the third time I have been told that, so I am really sorry, but if mobile phones could be put on the floor. I do not know why it is so sensitive today.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Ireland's Skills Needs: Discussion (13 Nov 2018)
Mary Butler: I am only passing on the message but I can hear the interference myself. For anybody who wants to watch, they cannot.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Ireland's Skills Needs: Discussion (13 Nov 2018)
Mary Butler: Please continue, Mr. Donohoe.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Ireland's Skills Needs: Discussion (13 Nov 2018)
Mary Butler: I thank Senator Mac Lochlainn. I ask Ms Fitzpatrick if the problem is specific to non-EEA workers?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Ireland's Skills Needs: Discussion (13 Nov 2018)
Mary Butler: Ms Fitzpatrick said she only noticed this issue within the past six months. Until then, it was okay.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Ireland's Skills Needs: Discussion (13 Nov 2018)
Mary Butler: Representatives from the Department will be before the committee on 27 November so we will raise the issue with them.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Ireland's Skills Needs: Discussion (13 Nov 2018)
Mary Butler: They might get that note to us very quickly.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Ireland's Skills Needs: Discussion (13 Nov 2018)
Mary Butler: When all the paper work is in order, it is taking eight weeks to turn around the application.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Ireland's Skills Needs: Discussion (13 Nov 2018)
Mary Butler: That is ridiculous.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Ireland's Skills Needs: Discussion (13 Nov 2018)
Mary Butler: Does Ms Fitzpatrick believe it has anything to do with Brexit and the fact that they are getting pedantic now in terms of different-----