Patrick O'Donovan (Limerick, Fine Gael)
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Question 192: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 167 of 14 September 2011, in view of the fact that FÁS was not required to pay certification fees to FETAC prior to April 2009, if FÁS still charged participants a fee for certification since the commencement of the construction skills certification scheme in 2002; if so, the use to which the funds raised were put; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2565/12]

Ciarán Cannon (Galway East, Fine Gael)
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Certification fees were charged by FÁS for the Construction Skills Certification Scheme (CSCS) since 2002. In November 2010, FÁS agreed with FETAC to pay fees for all backdated CSCS certificates from April 2009 and for 2010. Fee payments for all certificates going forward were also agreed with FETAC. CSCS certification fees collected by FAS up until April 2009 were allocated as a contribution towards the high overall management, development, monitoring and staff costs associated with the running of the national programme for CSCS and in FÁS.