13 Deputy Seán Barrett asked the Minister for Education and Science if his attention has been drawn to the problems for a college (details supplied) in County Dublin as a result of a decision by the Higher Education Authority to reduce the number of apprentice blocks by 50%, thus reducing the number of teachers by 6.4; if his further attention has been drawn to the fact that the teachers in question are all permanent members of staff and that this problem could be solved by allowing the college an increase in capped numbers of 112 students over a period of years and by offering courses in the following areas, furniture design, furniture and antique and restoration, renewable construction technology, insulation building technology, renewable energy technology, boatbuilding for the leisure industry and craft in musical instrument making, courses for which demand exists; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10655/10]

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13 Deputy Seán Barrett asked the Minister for Education and Science if his attention has been drawn to the problems for a college (details supplied) in County Dublin as a result of a decision by the Higher Education Authority to reduce the number of apprentice blocks by 50%, thus reducing the number of teachers by 6.4; if his further attention has been drawn to the fact that the teachers in question are all permanent members of staff and that this problem could be solved by allowing the college an increase in capped numbers of 112 students over a period of years and by offering courses in the following areas, furniture design, furniture and antique and restoration, renewable construction technology, insulation building technology, renewable energy technology, boatbuilding for the leisure industry and craft in musical instrument making, courses for which demand exists; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10655/10]

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