Arthur Morgan (Louth, Sinn Fein)

I have two questions on legislation. The first refers to the qualification, education and training Bill. Will the Tánaiste underwrite the funding necessary for approximately 100 former SR Technics workers to get positions? The DIT informed those people in an e-mail last night that, unfortunately, the proposed accelerated programme on engineering systems maintenance is not going ahead as planned. It is not going ahead for those people because the funding is not in place. The European globalisation fund has not yet been approved.

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