Niall Collins (Limerick County, Fianna Fail)
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137. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the funding allocated in 2018 for all craft based and consortia led apprenticeships from the national training fund and the Exchequer; the number of persons forecasted to be in craft based and consortia apprenticeships by the end of 2018. [50928/17]

Niall Collins (Limerick County, Fianna Fail)
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138. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the spend on apprenticeship training in 2016 and 2017; the craft based and consortia apprenticeship population in 2016 and to date in 2017; the number of male and female apprentices in training by each employment sector and sub sector in 2016 and to date in 2017 for craft based and consortia led apprenticeships, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50929/17]

John Halligan (Waterford, Independent)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 137 and 138 together.

The 2018 budget allocation for apprenticeship training is €122m which represents an increase of almost 24% on the 2017 allocation of €98.7m. The 2018 allocation will support an apprenticeship population in the region of 13,000 by the end of 2017 and the new registrations which are targeted, under the Government's Apprenticeship and Traineeship Plan, to reach over 6,000 during 2018. In 2018 all funding for craft based and consortia led apprenticeships will be provided from the National Training Fund.  The total expenditure on apprenticeship training was €69.6m in 2016 and is €69m to end October in 2017.

The information requested by the Deputy in relation to the craft based and consortia apprenticeship population in 2016 and to date in 2017 is set out in the attached table.

Apprentice Population 2015 - 2016 by Sector, Trade and Gender