The government’s National Training Fund is funded by an employer's levy. The fund currently stands at around 1.7 billion euro.  Employers’ groups say that money should be spent or handed back to the businesses that paid into it. 

Joining Claire to discuss this in dept was Cathal Crowe, Fianna Fáil TD for Clare, and Chair of the Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth and Neil McDonnell, the Chief Executive of ISME.