Fiona O'Loughlin (Kildare South, Fianna Fail)
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228. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated full year cost if the budget for apprenticeship training increased by 15%. [53115/18]

John Halligan (Waterford, Independent)
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The 2018 budget allocation for apprenticeship training is €122m and consequently the cost to increase this by 15% would be an additional €18.3m in a full year. However, this Government has increased the 2019 budget allocation for apprenticeship training by an additional €20m, which represents an increase of over 16% on the 2018 allocation, bringing the total allocation to €142m.