Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail)
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204. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide details of each funding approval provided under the Momentum programme for courses (details supplied); if there was a public call for applications; and the way the successful training providers were selected. [50554/13]

Ruairi Quinn (Dublin South East, Labour)
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This is a day to day operational matter for SOLAS who manage the Momentum programme. I understand that contracts issued under the Momentum programme operate on an outcome based payments system and to achieve the maximum amount of the contract the company will need to recruit the full number of participants, train them and assess them. The monetary amount of the contracts are set out below.

The Momentum operating framework was advertised in mid-2012 and potential providers were required to pre-qualify. Project submissions from those pre-qualified businesses were scored and selected based on the rules of the framework. The funding approvals for the courses in question are set out as follows.

Fuel Efficient Truck Driver: Maximum value of contract €239.313.20

Fuel Efficient Bus/Coach Driver: Maximum value of contract €240,776.80