Arthur Morgan (Louth, Sinn Fein)
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Question 161: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills when the labour market activation fund will make calls for proposals in view of the fact that it has been more than five months since the establishment of the fund was announced and the call for proposals was supposed to take place in the first quarter of 2010; the length of time that interested parties will have to express interest in view of the fact that it was originally expected that proposals would come on stream in the middle of 2010; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19064/10]

Mary Coughlan (Donegal South West, Fianna Fail)
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Following an open tender competition in which 370 tenders were received, I announced on Tuesday details of Activation Fund support for 26 different organisations across the private, not-for-profit and public sectors for 6,500 additional training and education places in programmes for priority groups of the unemployed. These programmes will be coming on stream from this month onwards.