Niall Collins (Limerick County, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Our Department continually liaises with the higher education authority and the ETBs in relation to the workings and runnings of our local training initiatives. As I stated in my earlier contribution, these initiatives are a recognition of local needs and they are a response to local needs. In the main, local training providers are also used to deliver them, so they are local collaborations to addressing an issue.

SOLAS is the authority responsible for providing the funding for our local training initiatives. In 2021, the allocation for local training initiatives is €18,963,000, which is a significant sum of money. That is projected to enable 2,295 learners to partake in 228 local training initiatives right across the country.

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