Motion or amendment: Addressing Skills Gaps between Young People and Businesses
Motion or amendment by Mr David Honeyford on .
- MLA
- Mr David Honeyford
- Party at the time
- Alliance Party
- Date
- 16 September 2025
- Type
- Motion or amendment
- Business
- Motion · Private Members' Motion
- Heading
- Addressing Skills Gaps between Young People and Businesses
- Assembly identifier
- Document 449586
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Addressing Skills Gaps between Young People and Businesses
That this Assembly notes the importance of promoting economic opportunity to deliver social justice and a truly reconciled society; recognises the significant job creation delivered by investment in Northern Ireland over the last few years; acknowledges that a lot of that investment was based on the linkage in skills development, between higher education and businesses in receipt of investment; regrets that opportunities are being missed because too many skills gaps remain and there are too many occasions when that skills linkage does not exist; expresses support for prioritising support into skills development and employment for the 19,000 young people in Northern Ireland not in education, employment or training; and calls on the Minister for the Economy to establish a talent development agency, similar to Skillnet Ireland and other similar agencies in Europe, to ensure greater alignment between skills development in further and higher education and what businesses actually require.
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