Apprenticeship Programmes

Thursday, 23 April 2026

Ceisteanna (569)

Maeve O'Connell

Ceist:

569. Deputy Maeve O'Connell asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the number of apprentices registered to the construction sector in 2025. [22085/26]

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Freagraí scríofa

Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science

With thanks to Deputy O’Connell for her interest in my Department’s work in the development of the national apprenticeship system, I can inform her that the number of new apprenticeship registrations in construction and construction-related fields for the full year 2025 was 6,428. This represents a growth rate of 69% since 2020.

I can add that the number of new craft apprenticeship registrations overall in 2025 was 7,147, which represents a growth of 78% on 2020.

This year will see the launch of the Action Plan for Apprenticeship 2026-2030, which recently completed an extensive public consultation phase. A key commitment in the Programme for Government, it will have a headline target of 12,500 new apprentice registrations per year by 2030 and two-thirds of these will be in craft and construction-related programmes.