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Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2017)

John Halligan: It does not-----

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2017)

John Halligan: -----under the criteria laid down. If the Deputy provides us with the details of that particular case, we would be delighted.

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2017)

John Halligan: I have dealt with the Deputy on a number of occasions when he was rightly representing his constituency. The difficulty we have all experienced, and that I have experienced since coming into this office, is the criteria laid down for the school transport scheme in legislation. Every child with special needs can avail of school transport or a payment. A special payment is made if a bus was...

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2017)

John Halligan: We had a value for money review in 2011, which was a very comprehensive review of the scheme. We have not had a total review of the scheme since then, although we had a review of concessionaires. The Deputy may recall I invited representatives from the different parties to have an input into that review and many did so, including Deputy Carol Nolan, who sent in very interesting ideas. I...

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2017)

John Halligan: I will be delighted to deal with that.

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2017)

John Halligan: To be clear, is the Deputy saying the school is there on a temporary basis?

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2017)

John Halligan: What we tend to do is look at issues like that on a case-by-case basis. If flexibility is possible, we will certainly consider that. If we meet with the Deputy on that issue, we can see if it is possible to work something out? Is that okay?

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2017)

John Halligan: I will address apprenticeships first. In general, we were coming from a poor place with apprenticeships. I will start with construction, which has been mentioned. Those would have been known as the basic apprenticeships. That is not to degrade the job itself but the basic apprenticeships at the time were bricklaying, cabinet-making, carpentry, plastering and so on. In the boom, we found...

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2017)

John Halligan: The percentages are pretty good. As I say, we operate and open out new apprenticeships all the time for all areas of life in Ireland and the take-up is quite substantial but one has to remember that many new apprenticeships will take some time. The financial sector-----

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2017)

John Halligan: Absolutely. We will have that with the committee within a week.

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2017)

John Halligan: We will get that information to the committee and members can look at it themselves. I see here, for example, that there are 276 apprenticeships in refrigeration. It is fantastic. I am not too sure where that would have been five or six years ago but it is an increase from 2016. We went from zero to 12 apprenticeships for international financial service specialists. We hope that the...

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2017)

John Halligan: On apprenticeships, interest has been shown in the areas of data analytics, cyber security and green finance. We hope to introduce new schemes along these lines next year.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Review (6 Dec 2017)

John Halligan: School transport is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department. Currently over 114,000 children, including over 11,000 children with special educational needs, are being transported in over 4,500 vehicles on a daily basis to primary and post-primary schools throughout the country covering over 100 million kilometres annually. The purpose of the School...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Post-Leaving Certificate Courses Availability (6 Dec 2017)

John Halligan: The Further Education and Training (FET) sector provides a broad range of provision at levels 1 to 6 of the National Framework of Qualifications, to meet the needs of over 300,000 learners. The Post Leaving Certificate (PLC) programme is the largest of the full time FET programmes with over 30,000 PLC places available annually.  PLC provision is planned at a national level by...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: SOLAS Funding (6 Dec 2017)

John Halligan: In the Further Education and Training Strategy SOLAS is committed to the implementation of a performance based funding model (strategic inputs and outcomes based funding model) which will emphasise the focus on the strategic rationale for Further Education & Training (FET) provision and the continuous improvement process. SOLAS and the Education & Training...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Provision (6 Dec 2017)

John Halligan: School transport is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department. Currently over 114,000 children, including some 11,000 children with special educational needs, are being transported in over 4,500 vehicles on a daily basis to primary and post-primary schools throughout the country covering over 100 million kilometres annually. The purpose of the School...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (6 Dec 2017)

John Halligan: As the Deputy is aware, I published the Action Plan to Expand Apprenticeship & Traineeship in Ireland 2016-2020, which sets out a series of detailed actions and targets outlining how the overall expansion commitment contained in the Action Plan for Education will be met. While we have already exceeded our 2017 target registrations in craft apprenticeships, we...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Provision (6 Dec 2017)

John Halligan: School transport is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department. Currently over 114,000 children, including some 11,000 children with special educational needs, are being transported in over 4,500 vehicles on a daily basis to primary and post-primary schools throughout the country covering over 100 million kilometres annually. The purpose of the School...

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

John Halligan: School transport is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department. Currently over 114,000 children, including over 11,000 children with special educational needs, are being transported in over 4,500 vehicles on a daily basis to primary and post-primary schools throughout the country covering over 100 million kilometres annually. The purpose of the School...

Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 Dec 2017)

John Halligan: During the course of the debate, we heard a lot of statistics on the rise in drink-driving cases and the level of impairment that can be caused by drink-driving even after consuming low amounts of alcohol. Statistically, it has absolutely been proven. Medical science has proven it and all the indications are that it is absolutely correct. We have also heard concerns that the Bill is too...