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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Eligibility (26 Oct 2017)

John Halligan: School transport is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department. During the 2016/17 school year almost 116,000 children, including some 12,000 children with special educational needs, were transported in over 4,000 vehicles on a daily basis to primary and post-primary schools throughout the country covering over 100 million kilometres annually. Under the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Administration (26 Oct 2017)

John Halligan: School transport is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department. During the 2016/17 school year almost 116,000 children, including some 12,000 children with special educational needs, were transported in over 4,000 vehicles on a daily basis to primary and post-primary schools throughout the country covering over 100 million kilometres annually. The purpose...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Schools Building Projects Status (26 Oct 2017)

John Halligan: The Minister sends his apologies for not being here this morning. I thank Senators Clifford-Lee and Reilly for raising this matter as it provides me with an opportunity to outline the current position in terms of the accommodation needs of St. Molaga's national school, Balbriggan, County. Dublin. As both Senators will be aware, St. Molaga's is a co-educational national school that caters...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Schools Building Projects Status (26 Oct 2017)

John Halligan: The Department is currently preparing a project brief. To be quite frank, I do not know when the brief will be completed but I have been told that it will be put in place by the year's end. I can say that officials from the Department contacted the school's principal during the summer months about the project brief for the school, the school's long-term project and projected staffing...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Schools Building Projects Status (26 Oct 2017)

John Halligan: In the context of increasing staffing at the school, the Department has advised the school that it would be open to dealing with any application for immediate needs. It is anticipated that the decisions based on the exercises, that I mentioned earlier, and criteria laid down would be in place by the end of the year. The Department has said that the school is included in its construction...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Schools Building Projects Status (26 Oct 2017)

John Halligan: It will be a permanent solution.

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Schools Building Projects Status (26 Oct 2017)

John Halligan: Absolutely, yes.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Applications (7 Nov 2017)

John Halligan: School transport is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department. During the 2016/17 school year almost 116,000 children, including some 12,000 children with special educational needs, were transported in over 4,000 vehicles on a daily basis to primary and post-primary schools throughout the country covering over 100 million kilometres...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Applications (7 Nov 2017)

John Halligan: School transport is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department. During the 2016/17 school year almost 116,000 children, including some 12,000 children with special educational needs, were transported in over 4,000 vehicles on a daily basis to primary and post-primary schools throughout the country covering over 100 million kilometres...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Applications (7 Nov 2017)

John Halligan: School transport is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department. During the 2016/17 school year almost 116,000 children, including some 12,000 children with special educational needs, were transported in over 4,000 vehicles on a daily basis to primary and post-primary schools throughout the country covering over 100 million kilometres...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: National Training Fund (7 Nov 2017)

John Halligan: The information requested by the Deputy in relation to National Training Fund (NTF) and Exchequer current allocation and spend in each of the years 2014, 2015, 2016 and to date in 2017 is set out in the attached tabular statement. All capital funding for apprenticeship training comes from the exchequer.  Expenditure on capital relating to apprenticeships in the craft trades is...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Data (7 Nov 2017)

John Halligan: The number of participants enrolled in State funded traineeships as of the end of October 2017 is 2,659 which is ahead of the 2017 target set for the year of 2,600. The Action Plan to Expand Apprenticeship and Traineeship in Ireland 2016-2020 sets out a series of detailed actions and annual targets setting out how the expansion commitments in the area set out in the Action Plan for Education...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Applications (7 Nov 2017)

John Halligan: School transport is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department. During the 2016/17 school year almost 116,000 children, including some 12,000 children with special educational needs, were transported in over 4,000 vehicles on a daily basis to primary and post-primary schools throughout the country covering over 100 million kilometres...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Applications (7 Nov 2017)

John Halligan: School transport is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department. During the 2016/17 school year almost 116,000 children, including some 12,000 children with special educational needs, were transported in over 4,000 vehicles on a daily basis to primary and post-primary schools throughout the country covering over 100 million kilometres...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Provision (7 Nov 2017)

John Halligan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 353 to 355, inclusive, together. School transport is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department. During the 2016/17 school year almost 116,000 children, including some 12,000 children with special educational needs, were transported in over 4,000 vehicles on a daily basis to primary and post-primary schools...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Eligibility (7 Nov 2017)

John Halligan: School transport is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department. Currently almost 116,000 children, including some 12,000 children with special educational needs, are being transported in over 4,000 vehicles on a daily basis to primary and post-primary schools throughout the country covering over 100 million kilometres annually. The purpose...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Provision (7 Nov 2017)

John Halligan: School transport is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department. During the 2016/17 school year almost 116,000 children, including some 12,000 children with special educational needs, were transported in over 4,000 vehicles on a daily basis to primary and post-primary schools throughout the country covering over 100 million kilometres annually. The purpose...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Administration (7 Nov 2017)

John Halligan: School transport is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department. During the 2016/17 school year almost 116,000 children, including some 12,000 children with special educational needs, were transported in over 4,000 vehicles on a daily basis to primary and post-primary schools throughout the country covering over 100 million kilometres...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Data (7 Nov 2017)

John Halligan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 388 to 390, inclusive, together. The 2018 budget allocation for apprenticeship training is €122m which represents an increase of almost 24% on the 2017 allocation of €98.7m. The 2018 allocation is apportioned between SOLAS (€90m) and the HEA (€32m). This allocation is based on actual costings received during the budgetary...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teachers' Remuneration (7 Nov 2017)

John Halligan: The criteria for the award of incremental credit to recognised post-primary teachers is set out by my Department in Circulars 29/2007 and 0029/2010. The criteria is agreed under the auspices of the Teachers Conciliation Council (TCC) which is comprised of representatives of teachers, school management, the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, the Department of Education &...