The government has announced €20 million in capital funding to expand apprenticeships across the country, from electricians to plumbers, hairdressers to pipefitting.

Why does Ireland still have a shortage of apprenticeships and is there a stigma attached to taking up a trade which is very much needed to keep the country going?

Henry McKean met apprentices in Bus Eireann and Helsinn Birex Pharmaceuticals Ltd to see what it is like on the ground.