Michael Healy-Rae (Kerry, Independent)
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263. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of an application for a green certificate course by a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5476/16]

Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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Teagasc is one of the main providers of further education in agriculture, food, horticulture, forestry and equine studies. The availability of courses is a matter for Teagasc and not the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine. Teagasc advise that they issued an application form to the person in question for the part-time Green Cert programme on 7^thOct 2015 for a course commencing 6^thNovember 2015. That person subsequently contacted Teagasc’s local office in Killarney in late January 2016 seeking a place on the part-time Green Cert programme. However, a place could not be offered as the course had commenced the previous November.

The applicant is advised to contact their local education officer for further advice on Green Cert participation.