Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail)
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Question 11: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will be reintroducing the Labour Market Activation Fund in 2012; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39231/11]

Ciarán Cannon (Galway East, Fine Gael)
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The Deputy will be aware that my colleague the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform has made a provision of €20 million in Budget 2012 for a new Labour Market Activation Fund. It is intended that this fund, which will be specifically targeted at the long-term unemployed, will deliver upward of 6,500 places next year.