Rose Conway-Walsh (Mayo, Sinn Fein)
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469. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the FET and Solas programmes funded through the training people for employment budget line of the National Training Fund; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33204/21]

Niall Collins (Limerick County, Fianna Fail)
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Programmes which are funded from the National Training Fund (NTF) Training for Employment budget line include VTOS, Blended Training, Bridging and Foundation Training, Community Training Centres, Local Training Initiatives, Specialist Training Providers, Specific Skills Training and Traineeship Training.

This budget provision enables the Skills to Compete and Retrofitting initiatives which gives people who lost their jobs as a result of COVID-19 the skills they need to compete in the labour market if they are unable to re-enter their previous employment. In total there is €207.3 million allocated from the NTF for training people for employment.