Averil Power (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Will the Minister of State provide further clarification on when it is expected FÁS will be dissolved, with particular reference to arrangements in the interim? Given that the VECs have evolved into education and training boards, what will be the relationship between the boards and FÁS in the intervening period, particularly in respect of the training aspect of their brief and how it is to be managed? Is there to be a co-ordinated planning relationship between the two bodies over the summer and into September, with the delivery of training courses during that period? Will all of its budget stay with FÁS until it is dissolved, or is any of it to be given to the education and training boards to fund any training provision they might undertake? I seek clarity on these points and also on the issue of when FÁS will be wound up to give SOLAS full responsibility for the sector.

FÁS will be gone and SOLAS will have responsibility for the entire sector. I ask what arrangements will be in place in the interim.