Written answers
Tuesday, 26 May 2009
Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
FÁS Training Programmes
10:00 pm
Ruairi Quinn (Dublin South East, Labour)
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Question 116: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of training places supplied through FÁS for each of the years 2005, 2006, 2007, 208 and to date in 2009, broken down according to FÁS division and funding allocated to FÁS by her Department in each of these years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21318/09]
Mary Coughlan (Donegal South West, Fianna Fail)
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The details requested by the Deputy are set out as follows.
| FÁS Training for Employment Expenditure plus Apprenticeship - 2005 to April 2009 | |||||
| Analysed by FÁS Division | |||||
| Training Services Unit | Community Services Unit | Services to Business Unit | Total | ||
| Funding | |||||
| Expenditure | € m | € m | € m | € m | |
| 2009 (April YearTo Date – YTD - Actual) | 45.431 | 44.773 | 25.690 | 115.894 | |
| 2008 | 160.259 | 137.623 | 63.810 | 361.692 | |
| 2007 | 154.689 | 129.538 | 60.954 | 345.181 | |
| 2006 | 143.541 | 118.132 | 53.092 | 314.765 | |
| 2005 | 134.492 | 109.896 | 50.473 | 294.861 | |
| TOTAL EXPENDITURE | 638.412 | 539.962 | 254.019 | 1,432.393 | |
| Places supplied | |||||
| Throughput | |||||
| 2009 (April YTD Actual) | 14,945 | 8,480 | 7,334 | 30,759 | |
| 2008 | 21,661 | 5,788 | 11,357 | 38,806 | |
| 2007 | 20,743 | 6,085 | 11,132 | 37,960 | |
| 2006 | 22,045 | 5,920 | 10,639 | 38,604 | |
| 2005 | 23,062 | 6,376 | 11,265 | 40,703 | |
| TOTAL | 102,456 | 32,649 | 51,727 | 186,832 | |
| Notes | |||||
| 1. Employment Schemes, Part-time course and Sponsored Training are not included in the figures above | |||||
| 2. Places supplied 2005 -2008 - based on persons who have completed their training in the year specified. i.e Throughput; does not include persons in-training at year end. | |||||
| 3. Places supplied 2009 ytd - based on throughput ytd plus persons in training at the end of Apr 09 |
Ruairi Quinn (Dublin South East, Labour)
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Question 117: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the breakdown of the 18,525 training places for the unemployed referred to in Parliamentary Question No. 146 of 22 April 2009, detailing the type of training places available; the sector responsible for delivering these places; if these places represent additional funding or a re-allocation of resources within her Department; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21319/09]
Mary Coughlan (Donegal South West, Fianna Fail)
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The Government announced in the supplementary budget that €128 million was being redeployed across my Department, the Department of Social and Family Affairs and the Department of Education and Science to provide increased support services and activation training places for the unemployed. This has enabled an additional 23,435 training and education activation places to be created from within existing resources.
As part of this process my Department has reallocated €61.4 million, largely from training people in employment programmes (such as the apprenticeship programme and Skillnets) towards training the unemployed. This redeployment of funds has enabled my Department to fund an additional 18,725 training, education and work placement places specifically for the unemployed.
The majority of these additional places are being provided under FÁS Training Initiatives Strategy and are short courses in specific skills training. These courses are designed to develop new skills and competencies for the unemployed to assist them in securing employment. FÁS is providing such courses for a broad range of different sectors including the retail, IT, construction, manufacturing and services sectors. Details are provided in the following table.
| Programme | Training Places | Provided By |
| Short Courses | 13,848 | FÁS |
| Community Employment | 400 | FÁS |
| Work Placement Programme+ | 2,000 | FÁS |
| Short Time Working Training Prog+ | 277 | FÁS |
| Third Level part-time places* | 1,500 | HEA |
| Institutes of Technology-Redundant Apprentices Prog* | 700 | IOT/ FÁS |
| Total Places | 18,725 |
+ Joint Initiatives between the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment and the Department of Social and Family Affairs.
* Joint Initiatives between the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment and the Department of Education and Science.
Ruairi Quinn (Dublin South East, Labour)
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Question 118: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if the work experience scheme announced in the supplementary budget on 7 April 2009 is currently operational; if not, when it is due to be operational; the way the scheme operates or will operate; the criteria for participation in such a scheme; the number of places that will be available; the cost per place in the scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21320/09]
Mary Coughlan (Donegal South West, Fianna Fail)
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I am happy to say that a working group consisting of representatives of my Department, the Department of Education and Science, the Department of Social and Family Affairs, FÁS and the Higher Education Authority have largely concluded their work on developing the proposals for the Work Placement Programme, which was announced in last month's supplementary budget. I expect that we will be in a position to announce further details on this programme in the very near future.
I can confirm that the programme will provide 2,000 six-month places to individuals who are unemployed. Under the programme there will be two streams. The first stream will be for 1,000 unemployed graduates and the second stream will consist of 1,000 places for other individuals. There is no direct cost to the Exchequer per place on the programme, as whilst on the programme participants will continue to receive their social welfare entitlements only from the Exchequer.
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