Maurice Quinlivan (Limerick City, Sinn Fein)
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87. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the €8 million in funding for institutes of technology to support apprenticeships announced on 11 June 2018 is new additional funding or part of the previously announced apprenticeship budget; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26035/18]

John Halligan (Waterford, Independent)
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On 11 June I announced the allocation €8 million in Exchequer capital funding to Institutes of Technology for the purchase of equipment and enabling works for apprenticeship training. This allocation is separate and additional to the €122 million in current funding for apprenticeship allocated in 2018 from the National Training Fund.