Rose Conway-Walsh (Mayo, Sinn Fein)
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512. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the 2021 drop-out rate from craft apprenticeships by apprenticeship type; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6264/22]

Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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A total of 6,955 craft apprentices were registered in 2021. 298 apprentices withdrew from their apprenticeships, 2 were made redundant and 194 are classed as unemployed. Apprentices end their registration for a variety of reasons including failed assessments, pursuing another career or educational programme or personal reasons such as serious illness etc. If they are made redundant and released from employment due to lack of work they are still eligible to re-sit assessments. If they leave their employer for any other reason they are classed as unemployed but are still eligible to re-sit assessments.

The information requested by the Deputy in relation to the withdrawal rate from apprenticeship for each trade for 2021 is attached below in tabular form.

Rose Conway-Walsh (Mayo, Sinn Fein)
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513. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of persons who completed an apprenticeship and became fully qualified tradespersons in each of the years 2016 to 2021, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6265/22]

Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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Craft apprenticeships account for 25 of the 62 existing available apprenticeship programmes. They comprise of a standard seven phase programme of alternating on-the-job and off-the-job phases. The off-the-job training for these programmes is delivered in Training Centres, Institutes of Technology and Technological Universities

SOLAS have provided certification data per year for craft apprenticeships. These certs are issued only after an apprentice has completed their apprenticeship. The table below shows the certs issued for the period 2016 to 2021. A further breakdown of the figures by individual craft apprenticeship is not available at this time but has being requested from SOLAS and will be sent to the Deputy as soon as it is available.