Apprenticeship Programmes
Dail Éireann — 2021-07-08
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Rose Conway-Walsh (SF), Mayo

I wish to inquire as to the status of the apprenticeship waiting lists as they are now. What is the number of apprentices who are waiting for off-the-job training and the number of apprentices who have been waiting for more than a year? In March of this year, after the beginning of the pandemic, there were 6,928 apprentices on a waiting list to access off-the-job training. By May, that figure had increased to more than 9,000. Some of the apprentices I have spoken to feel abandoned and that apprenticeships are being talked about into the future, but this is happening to them right here right now.

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Sitting date: 2021-07-08