This report, Monitoring Ireland’s Skills Supply 2022, is the 17th in a series of annual reports produced by the Skills and Labour Market Research Unit (SLMRU) aimed at monitoring the potential supply of skills to the labour market from Ireland’s education and training system. Not all education and training graduates will enter the labour market: some may remain in education for further studies, travel abroad, or not enter the labour market due to family commitments or other reasons. Others may already be in the workforce and therefore do not represent a new supply of skills. Bearing in mind these caveats, the analysis of the education/training outputs by level and field presented here is an overview of how Ireland’s education and training can contribute to meeting the skills needs of the economy. For this reason, this report also provides an analysis of the skills profile of Ireland’s adult population.
Monitoring Ireland’s Skills Supply serves as a companion publication for the National Skills Bulletin, where the focus is on the demand for skills in Ireland. When taken together, these two reports provide a comprehensive summary of the demand and supply of skills in Ireland.
This report is comprised of two separate parts. Sections 1-12 examine the number of awards made to learners in Ireland’s further and higher education and training system. Following a summary in the Overview section, awards are broken down by field of learning and NFQ level (where applicable). Section 13 and 14 focus on the existing skills profile of (a) the adult population and (b) recent graduates, drawing on data from Ireland’s Labour Force Survey.