Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail)
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579. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of young persons currently enrolled on green cert courses that will not be eligible for the national reserve, by county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16141/17]

Michael Creed (Cork North West, Fine Gael)
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The current agricultural education requirement for the National Reserve is at Fetac Level 6 or equivalent. My Department does not hold records of the number of young persons who are currently enrolled on such agricultural courses.

There are a number of educational institutions which provide this level of agricultural education, for example agricultural colleges run by Teagasc, privately owned colleges and Universities.

Graduates from these courses do not always necessarily follow a farming career.