Social Welfare Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages
Dail Éireann — 2022-11-30
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Seán Sherlock (LAB), Cork East

I support Deputy Kerrane's amendment. This is a time when the Government, to be fair to it, and the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, Deputy Harris, are putting particular emphasis on apprenticeships. There is now a clear Government policy around resourcing apprenticeships. We want to see more apprenticeships coming from right across the demographic spectrum, particularly in instances where people have not attained points for third level institutions and they may be thinking about apprenticeships, to create that environment where they are encouraged to take up apprenticeships without the loss of any element of their household income. In that context, I support the amendment.

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Sitting date: 2022-11-30