Tommy Broughan (Dublin North East, Independent)
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515. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide in tabular form the choices and uptake of Springboard courses for persons in receipt of one-parent family payments in 2012, 2013, 2014 and to date in 2015. [7944/15]

Jan O'Sullivan (Limerick City, Labour)
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Springboard provides free, flexible reskilling and upskilling opportunities at higher education level for unemployed and previously self-employed people in areas of emerging skills needs. To be eligible for a place on a Springboard course a person must be unemployed, actively seeking employment, and be in receipt of one of the range of qualifying Social Protection payments, or be signing for credits or be previously self-employed.

The tables below provide information on people in receipt of a one-parent family allowance who have engaged with Springboard from 2011 to date, broken down by number of applications, number of enrolments and course choices.

Table One: One-Parent Family payment recipient applications and enrolments by calendar year