Apprenticeship Programmes
Dail Éireann — 2024-01-18
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Mairéad Farrell (SF), Galway West

I ask the Minister to provide details on those 3,000 places and exactly what they relate to.
In addition, have critical skills and immigration visas ever been looked at in terms of trades? I have looked at that and it did not seem to be clear. On the five-year period the Minister mentioned, I was talking specifically about 2022-23, when there was a doubling of people with visas going to Australia and there was an increase in the number of people leaving over those coming in.

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Sitting date: 2024-01-18