Patrick Nulty (Dublin West, Labour)
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To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will outline and publish the criteria and rationale for the decision to select Dun Laoghaire Vocational Education Committee, Dundalk Institute of Technology and Carlow Institute of Technology for the delivery of carpentry training; if he will outline in detail the reason the Institute of Technology Blanchardstown was not selected; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44320/12]

Ruairi Quinn (Dublin South East, Labour)
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The sharp decline in apprentice recruitment and significant levels of redundancies in many apprenticeship trades over the past three years has resulted in a dramatic fall off in the number of apprentices requiring education and training in the institutes of technology and colleges of further education. The requirement for Carpentry and Joinery provision has been particularly affected, having fallen from a high of 168 blocks nationally in 2008 to an expected national requirement for 17 blocks in 2012/13.