Richard Bruton (Dublin Bay North, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Senator Maria Byrne made the point that we are planning to have 40 new apprenticeships and 30 new traineeships. We will be relying on the further education system to deliver those. That will require an upgrade of investment in them. If there is potential to sweat the assets and use them more intensively, it would certainly be very welcome because, as we all know, capital budgets will be under very severe restrictions for many years to come.