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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Eligibility (11 Dec 2019)

John Halligan: School Transport is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department. In the 2018/2019 school year over 117,500 children, including over 13,000 children with special educational needs, were transported in over 5,000 vehicles on a daily basis to primary and post-primary schools throughout the country covering over 100 million kilometres at a cost of over...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 32 - Business, Enterprise and Innovation (Supplementary) (11 Dec 2019)

John Halligan: I welcome the opportunity to introduce very briefly the elements of the Supplementary Estimate relating to research and innovation. Under the Department's proposed allocation, just over €11 million would be apportioned to meet commitments in respect of various research and development programmes of national importance. This will help us to accelerate delivery against our targets and...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 32 - Business, Enterprise and Innovation (Supplementary) (11 Dec 2019)

John Halligan: It is important that we are upfront with the committee. In the same way as with the European Space Agency, what we put in we get back. Associate membership would probably cost approximately €1.3 million but this would only allow us the same percentage return. This is my belief and I may be wrong on this. Importantly, the return from our €18.3 million annual investment in the...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 32 - Business, Enterprise and Innovation (Supplementary) (11 Dec 2019)

John Halligan: I can give the Chairman a commitment that we will explore it. There is no question about that. We continuously actively engage with CERN. We have met CERN. We have been there and we have met representatives of CERN in Ireland. I hope to go to CERN in January.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 32 - Business, Enterprise and Innovation (Supplementary) (11 Dec 2019)

John Halligan: The future cycles of the PRTLI are referenced in the national development plan and a scoping of a future cycle has been undertaken by the Department of Education and Skills. Action has been taken by the Department of Business, Enterprise and Innovation and by the Department of Education and Skills to fund the main elements of the PRTLI, such as research, building equipment and structured PhD...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 32 - Business, Enterprise and Innovation (Supplementary) (11 Dec 2019)

John Halligan: Yes.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 32 - Business, Enterprise and Innovation (Supplementary) (11 Dec 2019)

John Halligan: I do not have a timeframe for a future programme. We are aiming to do what we are doing with the €2 million to pay off the commitment. It would be wrong of me to tell the Deputy we have a timeframe because we do not have one.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 32 - Business, Enterprise and Innovation (Supplementary) (11 Dec 2019)

John Halligan: The IDA gives indications on a two-year basis as to what it may require, although that is not always accurate.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 32 - Business, Enterprise and Innovation (Supplementary) (11 Dec 2019)

John Halligan: Many of the IDA staff operate from our embassies such that they have close association with Irish businesspeople and Irish communities in those countries. The Asia-Pacific strategy is led by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, which does an excellent job. I have also visited China and Japan, where the influence of Ireland is notable. There are also 420 collaborations through...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Provision (12 Dec 2019)

John Halligan: School transport is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of my Department. The purpose of my Department's School Transport Scheme is, having regard to available resources, to support the transport to and from school of children who reside remote from their nearest school. In the 2018/2019 school year over 117,500 children, including over 13,000 children with...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Soláthar Iompar Scoile (12 Dec 2019)

John Halligan: Is oibríocht shuntasach é Iompar Scoile atá á bainistiú ag Bus Éireann thar ceann na Roinne. Is é is cuspóir do Scéim Iompair Scoile mo Roinne, ag féachaint d'acmhainní atá ar fáil, tacú le hiompar leanaí a chónaíonn i bhfad ón scoil is gaire dóibh, chuig an scoil agus ón scoil. Le...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Eligibility (12 Dec 2019)

John Halligan: School transport is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department. The purpose of my Department's School Transport Scheme is, having regard to available resources, to support the transport to and from school of children who reside remote from their nearest school. In the 2018/2019 school year over 117,500 children, including over 13,000 children with special...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Skills Shortages (17 Dec 2019)

John Halligan: The Government is closely monitoring all aspects of construction skills and labour supply, through the national skills database and through the work of the Expert Group on Future Skills Needs (EGFSN), the National Skills Council and the Regional Skills Fora.  The EGFSN is currently tendering for a skills demand study to determine the demand and nature of the Irish Construction...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (17 Dec 2019)

John Halligan: Registrations on craft apprenticeships have grown strongly in recent years following a very significant collapse in the number of apprenticeship registrations between 2008 and 2011. SOLAS, in partnership with Construction Industry Federation (CIF) and Waterford Wexford Education and Training Board (WWETB), operated a pilot initiative to test the viability of a shared apprenticeship...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Remote Area Boarding Grant (17 Dec 2019)

John Halligan: School Transport is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department.  In the 2018/2019 school year over 117,500 children, including over 13,000 children with special educational needs, were transported in over 5,000 vehicles on a daily basis to primary and post-primary schools throughout the country covering over 100 million kilometres at a cost...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Data (17 Dec 2019)

John Halligan: School Transport is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department.  The purpose of the scheme is, having regard to available resources, to support the transport to and from school of children who reside remote from their nearest school.   In general children are eligible for school transport if they meet the distance criteria and are...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (17 Dec 2019)

John Halligan: School Transport is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department.  In the 2018/2019 school year over 117,500 children, including over 13,000 children with special educational needs, were transported in over 5,000 vehicles on a daily basis to primary and post-primary schools throughout the country covering over 100 million kilometres at a cost...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (17 Dec 2019)

John Halligan: School Transport is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department.  In the 2018/2019 school year over 117,500 children, including over 13,000 children with special educational needs, were transported in over 5,000 vehicles on a daily basis to primary and post-primary schools throughout the country covering over 100 million kilometres at a cost...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (17 Dec 2019)

John Halligan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 177 to 179, inclusive, together. School Transport is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department. In the 2018/2019 school year over 117,500 children, including over 13,000 children with special educational needs, were transported in over 5,000 vehicles on a daily basis to primary and post-primary schools throughout the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Funding (17 Dec 2019)

John Halligan: Applications for EGF support can be made in respect of workers made redundant as a result of major structural changes in world trade patterns due to globalisation or as a result of a global financial and economic crises.  Each application must provide a reasoned analysis of the link between the redundancies and major structural changes in world trade patterns due to globalisation,...