310 Deputy Luke ‘Ming’ Flanagan asked the Minister for Social Protection the reason the back to education allowance is only for those who want to upgrade their skills and not for those who want to retrain for a new industry, currently the allowance is curtailed to those who want to do training at a level higher than what they already have, that is persons with diplomas who want to do a degree; if the scheme will be made available to those who already have a higher qualification in one area but want to train in a different area at a lower level, considering that certain industries such as construction have been extremely badly hit by the recession it makes sense that construction engineers, architects and so on should be allowed to retrain for completely new industries albeit starting at a lower qualification level. [18306/11]

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310 Deputy Luke ‘Ming’ Flanagan asked the Minister for Social Protection the reason the back to education allowance is only for those who want to upgrade their skills and not for those who want to retrain for a new industry, currently the allowance is curtailed to those who want to do training at a level higher than what they already have, that is persons with diplomas who want to do a degree; if the scheme will be made available to those who already have a higher qualification in one area but want to train in a different area at a lower level, considering that certain industries such as construction have been extremely badly hit by the recession it makes sense that construction engineers, architects and so on should be allowed to retrain for completely new industries albeit starting at a lower qualification level. [18306/11]

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