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Dáil Éireann debate -
Wednesday, 22 Mar 1995

Vol. 450 No. 8

Written Answers. - Tourism Industry Employment Opportunities.

Liz O'Donnell

Question:

42 Ms O'Donnell asked the Minister for Tourism and Trade the training programmes in operation during 1995 to equip unemployed people and early school leavers with the skills necessary to take up employment opportunities in the tourism industry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5990/95]

CERT, the State tourism training agency, provides a variety of training programmes for unemployed persons to equip them with the technical, inter-personal and other skills necessary to take up employment opportunities in tourism. In the tourism operational programme 1994-99 training for the unemployed and early school leavers gets special priority and the separate measure allocated for this purpose provides for basic skills training, return-to-work, start-your-own-business and other job training schemes. Specifically, training for the unemployed over the period of the operational programme will apply to almost 10,000 unemployed persons and 1995 will see approximately 1,600 unemployed persons participate on these programmes.

Tourism training for early school leavers is provided in over 70 second level schools on VPT1 and VPT2, vocational preparation training programmes. These are one year programmes in hotel and catering, or tourism studies. Almost 900 young persons participate annually on VPT2 programmes and a further 400 on VPT1. Over 80 per cent of the people who attend these courses find employment.

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