Niall Collins (Limerick County, Fianna Fail)
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343. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the current and capital allocation made available for apprenticeship training from the national training fund and the Exchequer in each of the years 2014 to 2016 and to date in 2017; the actual expenditure in each year incurred and to date in 2017; and the current and capital allocations for 2018 for apprenticeship training from the national training fund and the Exchequer. [46142/17]

John Halligan (Waterford, Independent)
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The information requested by the Deputy in relation to National Training Fund (NTF) and Exchequer current allocation and spend in each of the years 2014, 2015, 2016 and to date in 2017 is set out in the attached tabular statement.

All capital funding for apprenticeship training comes from the exchequer.  Expenditure on capital relating to apprenticeships in the craft trades is funded through the training centre capital budget which had an allocation of €2.5m in each of the years 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017.  This budget has been increased to €5.5m in Budget 2018.  In addition to this, a capital allocation of €8 million has been made available in 2017 and a further €8 million in 2018 to fund the purchase of equipment to enable the delivery of both new apprenticeship programmes and the implementation of revised syllabi in existing craft apprenticeship programmes being delivered in the Institutes of Technology.