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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Turf Cutting (21 Jan 2021)

Niall Collins: 132. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will address a query in relation to turf cutting (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3123/21]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Ministerial Correspondence (21 Jan 2021)

Niall Collins: 269. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his views on matters raised in correspondence by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3434/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (21 Jan 2021)

Niall Collins: Apprenticeship is primarily a contract of employment which incorporates a minimum of 50% on-the-job training with off-the-job training which is delivered in a number of different ways according to the apprenticeship programme. These range from remote or online learning to one day per week in an education institution or, in the case of craft apprenticeships, in periods of 10-35 week...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Registration of Nurses (21 Jan 2021)

Niall Collins: 316. To ask the Minister for Health if he will advise regarding correspondence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2994/21]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Brexit Issues (20 Jan 2021)

Niall Collins: 13. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will address a matter relating to Brexit customs issues (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2463/21]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Brexit Issues (20 Jan 2021)

Niall Collins: 84. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will address a matter relating to Brexit customs issues (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2464/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Brexit Issues (20 Jan 2021)

Niall Collins: 144. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will address a matter relating to Brexit customs issues (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2465/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Public Sector Pay (20 Jan 2021)

Niall Collins: 287. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the assistance which can be provided to a person (details supplied) with a query regarding incremental progression; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2251/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (20 Jan 2021)

Niall Collins: 347. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a person (details supplied) will receive arrears of the pandemic unemployment payment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2568/21]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (20 Jan 2021)

Niall Collins: 374. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if a copy of a report will be issued to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2604/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: SOLAS Training and Education Programmes (20 Jan 2021)

Niall Collins: Under the Safety, Health and Welfare at Work (Construction) Regulations 2013, all construction workers in Ireland are required to hold a valid Safe Pass Registration Card in Ireland. In March 2020 the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation amended these regulations to extend the expiry dates of valid Safe Pass cards due to expire after the 1stMarch 2020 for the duration of the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (20 Jan 2021)

Niall Collins: Education and training relevant to skills needs in the construction sector is delivered through ongoing apprenticeship and non-apprenticeship further and higher education and training as well as through specific activation programmes such as Springboard, the Human Capital Initiative and Skillnet Ireland. Government has moved to ameliorate the impacts of Covid-19 on the continued skills...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres (20 Jan 2021)

Niall Collins: 452. To ask the Minister for Health his plans for a primary care centre (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2219/21]

Covid-19 (Higher Education): Statements (14 Jan 2021)

Niall Collins: I thank Deputies Devlin and Matthews for their queries on the subject of apprenticeships, which is a major part of our programme for Government. We are very keen, as a new Department, to destigmatise the apprenticeships area and put these centre stage in our further education and training sphere. We hope to make this a very viable, attractive and rewarding career path and way of finding job...

Covid-19 (Higher Education): Statements (14 Jan 2021)

Niall Collins: Deputy Mattie McGrath correctly queried the range of apprenticeships. I will furnish all Deputies with the full range of approved apprenticeship schemes that are in place and available. We are anxious to create new apprenticeships in a range of new areas, and that will be a central tenet of the apprenticeship action plan, which we referred to a number of times in this session. It will be...

Covid-19 (Higher Education): Statements (14 Jan 2021)

Niall Collins: The Deputy asked about the numbers who took up the various apprenticeships. I do not have that detail to hand at the moment. Suffice it to say that during 2020 there was naturally a drop-off due to Covid-19 and the impact of the pandemic in terms of the number of people who took up apprenticeships and applied for apprenticeships. That was part of the reason we introduced the...

Covid-19 (Higher Education): Statements (14 Jan 2021)

Niall Collins: I am grateful for the opportunity to provide Deputies with an update on further education and training during this level 5 phase of the Covid-19 pandemic and I look forward to taking any questions colleagues may have. As the Minister, Deputy Harris, said, further education and training providers are responding to the recent deterioration in the Covid-19 situation. They are adapting and...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (14 Jan 2021)

Niall Collins: 26. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if matters raised by a person (details supplied) in correspondence will receive a response; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1964/21]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights Cases (14 Jan 2021)

Niall Collins: 104. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1968/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (14 Jan 2021)

Niall Collins: The Resilience and Recovery 2020 -2021: Plan for Living with Covid 19 designates Further Education and Training (FET) as essential insofar as onsite presence is required, meaning that where necessary it will be permitted to attend on-site during Level 5. Given the scale, diversity and heterogeneity of third-level provision, higher and further education institutions are...