Post-Leaving Certificate Courses Data

Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 20 September 2018

Thursday, 20 September 2018

Questions (83)

Thomas Byrne

Question:

83. Deputy Thomas Byrne asked the Minister for Education and Skills the number of funded places in PLC courses that were not taken up or not used in ETBs; and if a policy will be enabled for the distribution of leftover or surplus courses to other ETBs. [38161/18]

Written answers

Minister of State at the Department of Education and Skills

SOLAS, the Further Education and Training Authority are responsible for the allocation of Post Leaving Cert (PLC) places to Education and Training Boards (ETBs) within the overall national provision and this is done through their annual service planning process. ETBs are then responsible for the allocation of places to PLC colleges in their areas.

The national allocation for PLC places is 30,136. The last available enrolment figure was 30,870, which is higher than the number of places allocated.

The issue of regional reallocation of PLC places is one of the recommendations arising from the PLC Review which is being examined by the PLC Programme Improvement Advisory Group.