Michael McCarthy (Cork South West, Labour)
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Question 184: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of back to education places out of the 3,000 provided as part of the recent jobs initiative that remain vacant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25008/11]

Ciarán Cannon (Galway East, Fine Gael)
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The additional 3,000 BTEI places provided as part of the recent Jobs Initiative were allocated to the VECs in June, 2011. These places are designed to provide flexible short term programmes, with priority given to people who are unemployed and who left school prior to completing their Leaving Certificate.

VECs are currently in the process of recruiting participants and initiating programmes for the Jobs Initiative. Data on the number of participants availing of these places will be submitted by VECs as part of end of year reports. The analysis of this data will not be available until early 2012.