Jack Wall (Kildare South, Labour)
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118. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a person (details supplied) in County Kildare is eligible to take up a springboard course; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45460/14]

Jan O'Sullivan (Limerick City, Labour)
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Springboard 2014 incorporates part-time Springboard courses and full-time ICT skills conversion programmes. The course referred to by the Deputy, Waterford Institute of Technology (WD_KCOSC_G), is an ICT Skills Higher Diploma in Computer Science. The ICT skills conversion programme is open to job seekers, regardless of their social protection status, who have the capacity and underlying aptitude, as well as an honours degree in a cognate discipline, to undergo an intensive programme of study and work experience to acquire honours degree level ICT programming skills. Decisions around the award of places are a matter for individual course providers.

Full details regarding Springboard 2014 courses, including eligibility criteria and entry requirements are available at www.springboardcourses.ie