Róisín Shortall (Dublin North West, Social Democrats)
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488. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount of funding provided for apprenticeships. [36746/19]

John Halligan (Waterford, Independent)
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The 2019 budget allocation for apprenticeship training is €142m which represents an increase of over 16% on the 2018 allocation of €122m. The 2019 allocation is apportioned between SOLAS (€105m) and the HEA (€37m) and will support an apprenticeship population which is forecast to be in excess of 18,000 by the end of 2019.