Olwyn Enright (Laois-Offaly, Fine Gael)
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Question 345: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number and names of the projects or initiatives that received grants towards the development and promotion of second chance education opportunities in 2006 and to date in 2007; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22724/07]

Martin Cullen (Waterford, Fianna Fail)
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The Second Chance Education Opportunities Scheme is designed to assist programmes, projects and initiatives which provide second chance education opportunities to long term unemployed and other disadvantaged groups. The overall objective is to encourage those target groups to return to education and training as a means of improving their educational qualifications with a view to returning to the labour force. The budget allocation for the Scheme in 2007 is €380,000.

In 2006, four initiatives were funded by my Department under the Scheme as follows:

Applications for funding under this Scheme are generally received towards the end of the year. To date in 2007 two applications for funding have been approved under the scheme as follows: