Written answers
Tuesday, 24 May 2016
Department of Education and Skills
SOLAS Training and Education Programmes Allowances
John Brady (Wicklow, Sinn Fein)
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126. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the cost of re-instating the SOLAS training allowance for 2017 in tabular form. [11504/16]
John Halligan (Waterford, Independent)
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Training allowances, funded by my Department through SOLAS, are paid to some participants on Further Education and Training programmes in lieu of their payments from the Department of Social Protection. These payments continue to be paid.
An additional training allowance used be paid to long term unemployed people as an incentive to participate in Further Education and Training programmes. The payment was reduced from €31.80 per week to €20 per week as part of Budget 2011 and as part of Budget 2014 it was decided to cease this payment for all participants commencing courses after 1 January 2014.
Travel supports continue to be available to these participants where appropriate.
The cost of reinstating the long term bonus payment is estimated at €6.7 million in a full year.
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