Thomas Byrne (Meath East, Fianna Fail)
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159. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount of funding provided by his Department in 2017 for funding apprenticeships; and the number of apprenticeships that are currently being funded. [22748/17]

John Halligan (Waterford, Independent)
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An allocation of €98.7m has been made available for apprenticeship training in 2017.  Currently, there are 30 apprenticeship programmes available, details of which can be found at www.apprenticeship.ie.  Subject to successful validation a further 10 programmes will commence during 2017.