Written answers
Wednesday, 7 May 2025
Department of Education and Skills
Information and Communications Technology
Emer Currie (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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589. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of places being provided as part of each of 2024 and 2025 Springboard+ programmes for courses covering artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, cloud computing, software development, e-commerce, and "traditional" ICT courses; the cost of providing the courses in each year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22577/25]
James Lawless (Kildare North, Fianna Fail)
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Springboard+ 2025 has not yet been finalised, therefore it is not possible to provide the requested information in relation to 2025, at this time.
The requested information is available in the table below for Springboard+ 2024:
| SPRINGBOARD+ 2024 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Skills Area | No. Courses | No. Places | Cost |
| Artificial Intelligence | 2 | 55 | €373,100.00 |
| Cyber Security | 8 | 252 | €1,473,920.00 |
| Cloud Computing | 7 | 132 | €790,213.00 |
| Software Development | 11 | 400 | €2,539,250.00 |
| eCommerce | 12 | 351 | €1,081,055.60 |
| Traditional ICT | 31 | 993 | €6,221,243.89 |
| TOTALS | 71 | 2183 | €12,478,782.49 |
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