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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Child Abuse (8 Sep 2020)

Niall Collins: 584. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will address a matter (details supplied) regarding abuse survivors; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22143/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Back to Education Allowance (8 Sep 2020)

Niall Collins: 720. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will address a matter (details supplied) regarding the pandemic unemployment payment and the eligibility criteria for third-level students; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21952/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards (8 Sep 2020)

Niall Collins: Louth and Meath Education and Training Board (LMETB) have a licence agreement in place to use the former County Council premises in Navan Co. Meath for Further Education & Training (FET) services. The agreement was approved by LMETB board on 21st June 2018. LMETB requested and received approval from the Department of Education on 28th June 2018. This premises is used solely as a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Community Training Centres (8 Sep 2020)

Niall Collins: Community education provision is part of the broader Further Education and Training (FET) sector and the facilities that community education providers use should be regarded as education settings and not subject to the 6 person restriction. Education and Training Boards Ireland (ETBI) and SOLAS, supported by my Department, have developed implementation guidelines for the FET sector....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Adult Education Provision (8 Sep 2020)

Niall Collins: Adult education forms part of our further education and training system. Informed by the Roadmap for Reopening Society and Business, the HSA Return to Work Protocolsand ongoing public health advice, my Department published Guidance for Further and Higher Education for Returning to On-site Activity in 2020, which will be updated on a regular basis. This framework guides the planning by further...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further Education and Training Programmes (8 Sep 2020)

Niall Collins: Local Training Initiatives (LTIs) are training and work experience programmes carried out in partnership with community and voluntary organisations. They provide a basis for the 16 Education and Training Boards to contract with community bodies to provide a service initiative in a locality where there are identified community needs. Training provision is intended to be sufficiently flexible...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further Education and Training Programmes (8 Sep 2020)

Niall Collins: The package of funding for higher and further education and training announced as part of the July stimulus amounts to €100 million and will fund over 35,000 places to start in the current year. This includes a provision of €52.5m for additional 28,550 places in the Further Education and Training sector as follows: - SOLAS and the Education and Training Boards developed an...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (8 Sep 2020)

Niall Collins: Pipefitting is a recognised craft apprenticeship in Ireland leading to a QQI Level 6 Advanced Certificate. SOLAS has established Recognition of Prior Learning [RPL] mechanisms which enable an individual, with the appropriate work experience and/or qualifications, to gain access to an apprenticeship programme and/or provide exemptions from the respective craft apprenticeship. To have...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Support Schemes (8 Sep 2020)

Niall Collins: A fund for student devices worth €15 million was part of a €168 million package for further and higher education sectors to deal with the impacts of Covid-19. Funding of €10 million has being provided to the higher education sector and €5m to the Further Education and Training sector. The funding is being provided to eligible Higher Education Institutions...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Vocational Training Opportunities Scheme (8 Sep 2020)

Niall Collins: The Department of Education and Skills circular letter 23 / 2020 was issued on 10th March 2020 regarding the payment of learner payments during the COVID-19 crisis. Regarding school and centre closures the circular states: “If, following HSE advice, a school or centre is closed as a result of COVID-19, the ETB will continue to pay learner payments as applicable.” ...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Ministerial Correspondence (8 Sep 2020)

Niall Collins: 903. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will address issues raised in correspondence (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21374/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Vetting (8 Sep 2020)

Niall Collins: 914. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if an organisation (details supplied) will be advised and assisted in relation to Garda vetting; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21582/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Policy (8 Sep 2020)

Niall Collins: 927. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to regularise undocumented persons living here; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21642/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Applications (8 Sep 2020)

Niall Collins: 934. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her views on correspondence from a person (details supplied) in relation to visas for the spouses of students; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21839/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Community Training Centres (8 Sep 2020)

Niall Collins: 1309. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address a matter (details supplied) regarding social distancing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22055/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Correspondence (8 Sep 2020)

Niall Collins: 1367. To ask the Minister for Health his views on correspondence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22440/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (8 Sep 2020)

Niall Collins: 1433. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of an appeal by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21842/20]

Back to School, Further and Higher Education and Special Education: Statements (3 Sep 2020)

Niall Collins: We have all heard today of the incredible amount of planning and work that has gone into supporting the various sectors in education through this most difficult period and the current work on reopening schools and third level institutions. As Minister of State with responsibility for skills and further education, I will update the House on actions taken to support those sectors respond to...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Further Education and Training Programmes (30 Jul 2020)

Niall Collins: I confirm they are available to students of further education who are attaining their further education through the ETBs.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Further Education and Training Programmes (30 Jul 2020)

Niall Collins: I am happy to address this question as part of my responsibilities at the Department with responsibility for further and higher education, research, innovation and science. The priority of the Minister for Education, Deputy Foley, the Minister with responsibility for higher education, Deputy Harris, and me is to offer accessible and inclusive further education and training and higher...