Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 2 May 2017
399. Deputy Maurice Quinlivan asked the Minister for Education and Skills to set down the number of apprenticeship places available on each of the existing apprenticeship programmes; and the estimated number of places that will be available on each new apprenticeship programmes to be introduced in 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020, respectively. [20698/17]
Amharc ar fhreagraThere were 3,742 new registrations on the 27 existing craft apprenticeships in 2016. During 2016 two new apprenticeship programmes commenced, the Insurance Practitioner in September with 67 registered apprentices and the Industrial Electrical Engineering in November with 12 registered apprentices.
The following table sets out target annual registrations for new apprenticeships in the period to 2020.
It is not possible to distribute these registrations across the various new apprenticeship programmes as some of these are on programmes that have commenced, some will be on programmes that are being developed and others will be on programmes that will come from the second call for proposals which will issue later this week.
|
New apprenticeships |
2017 |
2018 |
2019 |
2020 |
|
Planned new registrations per annum |
800 |
1,500 |
2,297 |
3,413 |
