Declan Buggy

Again, none of this is connected to the power, obviously.

But we are, all we're trying to do is encourage them or educate them on how much money they can make, how much they should be getting paid as an apprentice.

how to go about getting an apprenticeship, how to encourage them to go get summer jobs as well.

Like if we're employing someone, I don't really care, to be honest, what qualifications people have.

So it's from my line of work, as long as I could see they had a summer job, they were willing to go out and work on fourth, fifth and sixth year,

that's far more positive for me who was looking for a labourer a few months ago than rather than someone who's qualified to do an X, Y or Z for what I was looking for.

Do you know what I mean?

Yeah.

that's our pre-apprenticeship camps and then after that so when primary schools are off again then we have for 9 to 14 year olds we have summer camps so a lot of this is woodwork as well as a little bit of learning how to hang something up on a wall and all other like basically the whole idea is to get tools into their hands and have fun while doing it they get to make wooden projects that they bring home and these are 2040s all around the country so they're in Dublin Kilkenny Cork Westmead Leash everywhere so they are

I think the penny's starting to drop.

Yeah, I think people are trying to cop now that like, one, why do you go to college when you don't get paid?

You have to spend whatever, 15 or 16 grand for the year.

Then when you come out, you're actually still getting paid less, a lot of the jobs than the lads who are now a qualified plumber, plasterer, blocklayer.

We always say, look around the Foss centres, the cars outside are quite nice.

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