Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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Question 214: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he is satisfied that adequate resources are available to FÁS to maintain its various programmes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38212/06]

Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)
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The budget for FÁS is agreed on the basis of detailed discussions between FÁS, my Department and the Department of Finance in the context of the annual Estimates process. My Department allocated a total of €985.175 million to FÁS in the 2006 Estimate. This is an increase of approximately 8% on the amount spent by FÁS in 2005.

This budget is allocated by FÁS to the specific approved programmes/schemes, which are designed to meet the overall objectives set out in the FÁS Statement of Strategy 2006-2009.