James Eustace is the Further Education and Training Apprenticeship Manager in Education and Training Boards Ireland (ETBI). ETBI is the representation organisation of Ireland’s sixteen Education and Training Boards (ETBs). ETBs are statutory authorities with responsibility for education and training and manage and operate second-level schools, further education colleges, community national schools and a range of adult and further education centres delivering education and training programmes including PLC’s, apprenticeship and traineeship programmes. 

Tuesday 17th September – 12.00 Stuart Murphy
ABP Ireland & Poland Group HR Manager
“Pathways to your Future“

Ger manages our team of technical support engineers here in Volkswagen Group Ireland – The technical support team help the dealer network (148 garages in total) with particularly difficult diagnostic issues over the phone and through email support etc. They also liaise with the factories and report back on issues that the dealers are seeing on the ground with different products.

• Conor began his electrical apprenticeship in 1984 – 1988.
• He worked as an electrician between 1988 and 1998.
• He founded CJK in 1998.
• He was the MD of CJK between 1998-2018.
• He has been the Executive Director of CJK from 2018 – present.

Neil Robdale qualified as an Occupational Therapist in 1988 and has worked in the field of mental
health ever since.
Initially working in the Royal Edinburgh Hospital he became part of the movement towards
community care and the gradual reduction in size of the large psychiatric institutions. Working
within a day hospital, he became immersed in the process of moving care and therapy out into the
communities themselves. Continuing this process he managed ‘Samh’s Kitchen’, which was a training
project in catering skills organised by the Scottish Association for Mental Health.
Moving to Cambridgeshire in 1991 Neil became one of the early community outreach occupational
therapists, which role later developed into a community mental health team. He has worked in a
number of community mental health teams and Assertive outreach teams across the UK. In 2002 he
began a project to support people with mental health problems to stay in employment based in
Shropshire, England.
Neil has been a lecturer/practitioner at Glyndwr University, Wales, since 2007 specialising in mental
health and vocational rehabilitation. He still works directly within the field of mental health as a
Mental Capacity Act assessor.
July 2019.

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Keith is the currently Competence Development Manager with ESB Networks DAC. He is a former Apprentice Electrician with the company and has 20 years of experience working in a range of diverse roles. Keith is a strong advocate of the apprenticeship as a learning model and sees first-hand the rewarding and purposeful careers available via the apprenticeship route. Managing an apprentice pool of 300 with ESB networks, Keith sees the challenges of promoting gender balance amongst technical apprenticeships.