Thomas Byrne (Meath East, Fianna Fail)
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177. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the 77 apprenticeships proposed to the Apprenticeship Council in its second call for new apprenticeships, in tabular form; the names of the shortlisted proposals that will be developed; the rationale for their selection; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50136/17]

John Halligan (Waterford, Independent)
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A key commitment for this year set out in our Action Plan to Expand Apprenticeship and Traineeship 2016-2020 was the issuing of a second call for apprenticeship proposals to refresh the pipeline of proposals already established through the first call. The second call closed on the 1^stSeptember with 77 proposals received from a range of sectors and occupations. 

Since the call closed, the Apprenticeship Council has evaluated and scored proposals against a set of published criteria which was published in conjunction with the second call. The evaluation process and criteria are available at . The Council is expected to report to me shortly on proposals that are recommended for development and details of these will be published in December.

I understand that the Council does not intend to publish details of proposals that are not recommended for development.