National Training Fund (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee and Remaining Stages
Seanad Éireann — 2025-12-17
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Pauline Tully (SF), Cultural and Educational Panel

I move amendment No. 2:
In page 3, between lines 18 and 19, to insert the following:
“(2) Section 7 of the National Training Fund Act 2000 is amended by the substitution of the following subsection for subsection (5):
“(5) (a) With respect to the performance generally by the Minister of his or her functions under this section, the Minister shall, on an annual basis, consult with such representatives of employees and such representatives of employers as he or she considers appropriate.
(b) Where the Minister proposes to make payments from the Fund for the purposes set out in subsection 2B, he or she shall lay before the Houses of the Oireachtas—
(i) details of the payments that it is proposed to make for the purposes set out in sections 7(2B)(a) and 7(2B)(b) in the following 12 months, and
(ii) outline how the making of such payments will impact on the funding available for schemes of the nature set out in section 7(2)(a) to (c) so that payments made for the purposes set out in section 7(2B) will not impede or frustrate funding for the achievement of the purposes set out in section 7(2)(a) to (c) aforesaid.”.”.

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Sitting date: 2025-12-17