Fiona O'Loughlin (Kildare South, Fianna Fail)
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The second part of this meeting, which will start at 5.15 p.m., will address skills development and apprenticeships. The committee recognises that it is hugely important for a modern economy that we do all we can to help support skills development and the skills development system.

Regarding subhead B5, the metrics are very useful in terms of looking at this. There were 12 key high level metrics for programme B, nine of these alone related to the National Training Fund, and only one related, partly, to this particular allocation. Despite the numbers mentioned, there was a decrease in the target for the number of further education and training beneficiaries, although there was an increase in allocation. The Minister of State can come back to this at a later point.