Written answers
Wednesday, 15 June 2011
Department of Education and Skills
Training Programmes
10:00 pm
Gerry Adams (Louth, Sinn Fein)
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Question 232: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills in cases in which workers who had been made redundant from companies (details supplied) embarked on retraining courses funded by the European Globalisation Fund; if the fees were for the entirety of the course to be covered or just a part thereof; if he has been contacted by committees of former workers now students regarding this issue; if he has met with such a committee or their representatives; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15469/11]
Ciarán Cannon (Galway East, Fine Gael)
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EGF co-financing for all relevant measures in support of redundant S R Technics workers is required by European Commission decision to be used by 9 October 2011 whether the measures in question are carried through to completion within that timeframe or are run on a modular basis as part of longer duration courses. This end-date has always been made clear to both the providers of supports to the redundant workers and to the representatives of those workers wishing to avail of those supports.
Over the course of the EGF programme to date, a number of meetings have been held by Department officials with a delegation of the redundant SR Technics workers to discuss various EGF related issues including certain third level courses. The most recent such meeting was held on 12 April 2011.
I have also written to a member of this delegation on this specific issue last month. As the full facts of the situation have already been conveyed to the delegation by the Department on a number of occasions, I do not propose to meet with representatives of these workers again at t his stage.
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