Gerry Adams (Louth, Sinn Fein)
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Question 20: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to provide 30,000 additional training places across the education and training system; and the location of same. [9837/11]

Ruairi Quinn (Dublin South East, Labour)
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2057The Programme for Government contains a commitment that the Government will provide 30,000 additional training places across the education and training system.

The Programme for Government also outlines that, within the first 100 days of taking office, the Government will provide a Jobs Initiative which will contain some 15,000 of those places in training, work experience and educational opportunities for those who are out of work.

Details of these additional activation places will be contained in the forthcoming Jobs Initiative, which is due to be published later this month.

Once the Jobs Initiative has been launched my Department will work to deliver the additional education and training places on top of my Department's existing wide range of training and education supports for the unemployed.