Maurice Quinlivan (Limerick City, Sinn Fein)
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196. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 388 of 7 November 2017 to outline the way in which the cost of an apprentice per annum is calculated. [53099/17]

Maurice Quinlivan (Limerick City, Sinn Fein)
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197. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 388 of 7 November 2017 if he will provide a breakdown of the way in which the cost of an apprentice per year is calculated. [53102/17]

John Halligan (Waterford, Independent)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 196 and 197 together.

The 2018 budget allocation for apprenticeship training is €122 million which represents an increase of almost 24% on the 2017 allocation of €98.7 million. This will support an end of year population of over 16,000 craft based apprentices at an average of €6,700 per apprentice and an end of year population of over 2,000 in new consortia led apprentices at an average of €5,100 per apprentice. The average of these two figures is the figure given to the Deputy in Parliamentary Question 388 of 7 November.