A key commitment for this year set out in our Action Plan to Expand Apprenticeship and Traineeship 2016-2020 was the issuing of a second call for apprenticeship proposals to refresh the pipeline of proposals already established through the first call. The second call closed on the 1st September with 77 proposals received from a range of sectors and occupations.
Since the call closed, the Apprenticeship Council has evaluated and scored proposals against a set of published criteria which was published in conjunction with the second call. The evaluation process and criteria are available at http://www.apprenticeship.ie/en/apprentice/Shared%20Documents/Guidance_document.pdf . The Council is expected to report to me shortly on proposals that are recommended for development and details of these will be published in December.
I understand that the Council does not intend to publish details of proposals that are not recommended for development.