James O'Connor (Cork East, Fianna Fail)
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61. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of plans to reform the CAO; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49829/21]

Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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I have set out a commitment to build on the existing CAO process to ensure that there is greater visibility of the full range of options across further education and training (FET) and apprenticeship. This approach would enable school leavers to consider FET and apprenticeship options alongside HE choices at CAO decision time.

Work is underway across SOLAS, ETBI, ETBs and the CAO to progress this. The expectation is that the enhanced choices will be accessible from the CAO website for the 2021/2022 school leaver cohort onwards.