Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 23 November 2023
Public Accounts Committee
Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 45 - Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science
Financial Statements 2022: National Training Fund
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 19: National Training Fund
9:30 am
Mr. Paul Lemass:
It is central to the activation programme going on at the moment. Aside from any other reason, state aid rules restrict our ability to invest, so there is only so much investment we can do. That investment is 100% targeted at affordability. In practice, for the units I have called out in Maynooth University and DCU, it means 30% of those will be ring-fenced for students. We can identify students through the national access plan or through SUSI.
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