Aengus Ó Snodaigh (Dublin South Central, Sinn Fein)
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82. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the funding allocated for adult literacy courses for 2022. [6259/22]

Niall Collins (Limerick County, Fianna Fail)
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Education and Training Boards, funded through SOLAS, provide a range of programmes to cater for the literacy needs of adults. While the allocations for the 2022 are not currently available, the details in respect of the 2020 and 2021 are set out below.

The Adult Literacy for Life (ALL) Strategy, launched last September, sets out a cross-government, cross-economy and cross-society approach to achieve the vision of an Ireland where every adult has the necessary literacy, numeracy and digital literacy to engage in society and realise their potential.

As set out in the Strategy, a cross government and stakeholder structure, the ALL Strategy Implementation Group, has been established to enable the collaboration and partnership needed to drive the implementation of the Strategy and progress literacy reforms. This year €3 million will be allocated for the implementation of the ALL Strategy which will enable the establishment of partnership structures to initiate focused coordination supports which are critical to delivering on the targets set for adult literacy, numeracy and digital literacy. This will include the recruitment of regional literacy co-ordinators, a national programme office, the establishment of a new collaboration and innovation fund and the continued roll out of the Adult Literacy Awareness campaign.