Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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Question 147: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the role external employment coaches will play in the new employment and training organisation that is scheduled to replace FÁS; if the role of employment coaches will be enhanced in view of the current levels of unemployment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37080/11]

Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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Question 148: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the new organisation scheduled to replace FÁS will retain FÁS registered trainers list of external employment coaches or if a new list will be created; if coaches on the current FÁS list will have to re-apply to be included on the new list; the format the new list will take; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37081/11]

Ciarán Cannon (Galway East, Fine Gael)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 147 and 148 together.

With regard to the FÁS Contracted Training Tender List, a pre-procurement notice was placed on the e-Tenders Government website in August 2011. The objective of this request to tender was to establish a Panel of Qualified Trainers, from which companies will be selected to participate in mini competitions for contracts awarded for delivery of various training programmes on behalf of FÁS. FÁS envisages that this new replacement Panel will be fully operational in January 2012. The detail of SOLAS involvement in the area of Contracted Training has not yet been fully decided.