Further and Higher Education
Dail Éireann — 2025-05-22
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Marian Harkin (IND), Sligo-Leitrim

As background to the strategy, its implementation resulted in significant progress between 2014 and 2019 in the development of the FET sector within the overall education landscape. Of course, we are now looking to the future. The second strategy, which covered the perios 2020 to 2024, set out the role of FET in a more collaborative and cohesive tertiary education system for Ireland. We are now looking at the 2025-29 strategy, the third strategy. In developing this strategy, there is an acknowledgement that the FET sector has undergone a significant transformation in the past five years. It is important that we continue with the trajectory in order that FET can be a pivotal driver of sustainable economic growth, workforce development and, in particular, lifelong learning.

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Sitting date: 2025-05-22