Maurice Quinlivan (Limerick City, Sinn Fein)
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247. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if funding will be made available to Kildare County Council to establish an apprenticeship training school in a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22711/18]

John Halligan (Waterford, Independent)
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Further Education and Training (FET) provision, including apprenticeship training, is planned at a national level by SOLAS.  Applications for funding for FET are made to SOLAS by Education and Training Boards (ETBs) as part of the overall FET planning process. It is a matter for the management of each ETB to decide on the allocation of funding to FET programmes and to schools and colleges within their area. 

In this context, I have been informed that Kildare Wicklow ETB have not made an application for funding for apprenticeship training at the school in question.