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Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 45 - Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science
Financial Statements 2022: National Training Fund
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 19: National Training Fund (23 Nov 2023)

Cormac Devlin: The officials provided us with a note on PPP costs. It states that the reduction of €5 million relative to the Estimate provision was primarily due to delays in higher education infrastructure public private partnerships. How is that process operating now on the whole? Looking at a number of campuses across the country, some of them have strategic plans dating back a number of...

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 45 - Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science
Financial Statements 2022: National Training Fund
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 19: National Training Fund (23 Nov 2023)

...education strategic infrastructure fund No. 1. It is important that they do not get lost. Finally, under the strategic infrastructure upgrade fund, we have 19 projects at a cost of between €500,000 and €5 million being addressed across the ETBs. They are largely at the stage where the design team has been appointed or is about to be appointed.

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 45 - Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science
Financial Statements 2022: National Training Fund
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 19: National Training Fund (23 Nov 2023)

Brian Stanley: ...the conversation we just had regarding training for people in employment, I am mindful of the fact that there is talk of us being in full employment. We are not in full employment. Approximately 5% of the population are still unemployed. On National Training Fund spending by grantees, we have had a discussion on the need for greater monitoring of outcomes. It is not just about the...

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 45 - Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science
Financial Statements 2022: National Training Fund
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 19: National Training Fund (23 Nov 2023)

Brian Stanley: ...to get people, who are a captive audience so to speak, from unemployment into employment or better skilled. There has been a reduction in the fund for training people for employment, from €212 million to €130 million, and Springboard funding has gone from €22 million down to €10 million. Again, are opportunities being lost there? Is there a kind of acceptance...