Alan Kelly (Tipperary, Labour)
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My rationale is that information I have sought regarding Tipperary Education and Training Board from the Department in parliamentary questions over the past month has not been provided. I have been engaging with the Secretary General of the Department to get better answers because many of them were not acceptable. My first request for information related to multiple issues, including the locations of offices, savings, interactions with SOLAS, staff mobility, the headquarters of work, the process for securing employment, the process for spending certain allocations and spending of own resources versus SOLAS expenditure. I asked a range of questions, all of which are in the public domain.

The second issue was related to Education and Training Boards Ireland, ETBI, which is a very interesting entity. Is it an organisation or representative body and, if it is neither, what is it?