John McGuinness (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fianna Fail)
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Question 720: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the funding being allocated to provide for adult computer education and training in 2005. [19319/05]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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My Department does not allocate funding specifically for adult computer education and training. Programmes within the further and adult education sector, funded by my Department, are operated and managed primarily by the vocational education committees. My Department's provision in 2005 for these programmes is approximately €180 million which is an increase of approximately 8% over the 2004 figure.

All full-time vocational education and training programmes in the further and adult education sector integrate new technology skills into their core programme, allied with literacy-numeracy, communications, general education and a range of vocational options. The target groups are early school leavers, unemployed adults, young people who have just completed upper second level education, and adults returning to full time learning.