Courses available under this fund

The Labour Market Acitvation Fund was announced in the Budget of 2010 as a means to provide innovative training programmes.

It aims to provide courses targeted at the low skilled and those suffering from unemployment in declining sectors such as construction with particular emphasis on the under 35s and the long-term unemployed. Read More

Eligibility These courses are completely free and open to unemployed persons.

For the purposes of this Fund, participants on programmes eligible for Fund support must be in receipt of an unemployment payment for a period of at least three consecutive months, or equivalent thereof, before joining the programmes (time spent on training or education programmes will be reckonable for this three-month period). Read More