Ruairi Quinn (Dublin South East, Labour)

Question 725: To ask the Minister for Education and Science his views on opening a scheme whereby all redundant apprentices and not just the 700 he proposes to retrain, as announced in the supplementary budget on 7 April 2009, would be hired to work on the school building programme in an effort to end the unemployment in the construction sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15813/09]

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