The Action Plan for Apprenticeship 2021-2025 aims to ensure that the apprenticeship system will contribute to meeting Ireland’s skills and human capital requirements by delivering on a target of 10,000 apprenticeship registrations per annum by 2025.
In 2021, a record 8,607 new apprentices were registered- an almost 40% increase on the figures from 2019, the last “normal” pre-pandemic year. Of those registrations, 6,955 were in craft apprenticeships with 1,652 registrations in consortia apprenticeships
Strong registrations means that we have a solid source of apprentices coming on stream in housing, retrofitting and infrastructure related programmes to help meet needs in these areas.
In addition, there is a programme of work set out in the Action Plan aimed at continuing to increase apprenticeship numbers to ensure that we meet workforce demand.
The number of apprenticeships taken up in each of the years 2018 to 2020 and to 31 December 2021, in tabular form is attached.
Apprenticeships 2018-2021