They deliver a growing number of apprenticeships and traineeships across the State.
Originating from the Education and Training Boards Act 2013,[2] ETBs came into existence on 1 July 2013, when they replaced the existing system of Vocational Education Committees (VECs) that had been in place since 1930.
[3][4] The training functions, which were the responsibility of the national training and employment authority FÁS, and which had been taken on by the VECs when FÁS was dissolved,[5] were also transferred to the ETBs.
[6] ETBs are statutorily responsible for the provision of all further education and training in the Republic of Ireland.
ETBI is the national representative association for the sixteen ETBs, and works to protect, promote and enhance the interests of vocational education and training within the wider education sector and the country at large.