Arthur Morgan (Louth, Sinn Fein)
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Question 92: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills when the Labour Market Activation Fund opened the tender competition; when the tender competition closed; the number of organisations and bodies that tendered for the activation fund; the number of organisations and bodies that were successful in the tender; the location of the successful organisations; the number of training and education places that are expected to be created in each; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24987/10]

Mary Coughlan (Donegal South West, Fianna Fail)
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On 12th March 2010, I launched a call for proposals to be funded under the new €20 million Labour Market Activation Fund. The closing date for receipt of tenders was 5.30pm on 8th April 2010. 370 tenders, from orgnaisations across the private, not for profit and public sectors, were received by the deadline.

Twenty six programmes, providing 6,500 additional training and education places for priorty groups of the unemployed, have now been approved for funding. These programmes will be coming on stream from this month onwards, subject to completion of satisfactory contractual arrangements. The organisations promoting the proposed programmes are located across a wide regional spread, enabling the priority groups at whom the Fund is targetted to access programmes in many locations.