Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 9 July 2025
Select Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science
Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 45 - Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Revised)
3:00 am
James Lawless (Kildare North, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source
Your own ETB, LMETB, is exemplary. I visited it with you, both the advanced centre and Dundalk IT but also the ETB centre for advanced manufacturing. They are an outstanding example. I know they have been ambitious to do a lot more as well. There is an increase of €40 million on 2024. In terms of the capital allocation to the FET sector overall, there is €106 million allocated in this revision, which is an increase of €40 million on the previous position. There are a number of different projects that are bidding or in the mix for that funding, but I am sure that LMETB will be putting in its bid as well, and that is well deserved. That is the first question as to how they go about their expansion.
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