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Topical Issue Debate: Vocational Training Opportunities Scheme (18 Oct 2012)

Ciarán Cannon: The Deputy is clearly aware of the conditions and criteria applying to the VTOS scheme. There are almost 450,000 people on the live register. About 100,000 of those are now long-term unemployed. The longer they remain unemployed the more unemployable they become. My Department and the Department of Social Protection has, therefore, focused on that cohort of people who are the most...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Availability (18 Oct 2012)

Ciarán Cannon: Primary school transport routes are planned so that, as far as possible, no eligible child will have more than 2.4 kilometres to travel to a pick-up point. Children living off the main route of a service are expected to make their own way, or to be brought to convenient pick-up points along the main route. Home pick-ups were never envisaged as being part of the Primary School Transport...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Availability (18 Oct 2012)

Ciarán Cannon: Primary school transport routes are planned so that, as far as possible, no eligible child will have more than 2.4 kilometres to travel to a pick-up point. Children living off the main route of a service are expected to make their own way, or to be brought to convenient pick-up points along the main route. Home pick-ups were never envisaged as being part of the Primary School Transport...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (23 Oct 2012)

Ciarán Cannon: Bus Éireann operates the School Transport Scheme on behalf of my Department. Under the terms of my Department's Primary School Transport Scheme, children are eligible for transport where they reside not less than 3.2 kms from and are attending their nearest school as determined by the Department/Bus Éireann, having regard to ethos and language. Children who are not eligible for...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (23 Oct 2012)

Ciarán Cannon: School transport services for eligible children generally operate during the 'Standard School Year' and facilitate a child's attendance during normal school opening and closing times only. Bus Éireann, which operates the School Transport Scheme on behalf of my Department, plan bus routes in such a way as to ensure that, as far as possible, eligible children have a reasonable level of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (23 Oct 2012)

Ciarán Cannon: Under the terms of my Department's School Transport Scheme for Children with Special Educational Needs children are eligible for transport where they are attending the nearest recognised: mainstream school, special class/special school or a unit, that is or can be resourced, to meet their special educational needs. In this case, the child in question is not attending his nearest school and is...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (23 Oct 2012)

Ciarán Cannon: From the commencement of the 2012/13 school year, school transport eligibility for post primary pupils is being determined by reference to the distance they reside from their nearest post-primary education centre having regard to ethos and language. In relation to school transport provision, ethos relates to religious ethos and is in the context of provision for minority religions....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (23 Oct 2012)

Ciarán Cannon: Under the terms of my Department's School Transport Scheme for Children with Special Educational Needs children are eligible for transport where they are attending the nearest recognised: mainstream school, special class/special school or a unit, that is or can be resourced, to meet their special educational needs. In this case, the child in question is not attending her nearest school and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Adult Education (23 Oct 2012)

Ciarán Cannon: Under the Adult Literacy and Community Education Scheme (ALCES) and the Back to Education Initiative (BTEI), my Department provides annual grants to Vocational Education Committees (VECs) for programmes in basic education, including adult literacy and numeracy classes. These programmes are aimed at adults with less than upper second level education and a range of target groups within them,...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (24 Oct 2012)

Ciarán Cannon: I propose to take Questions Nos. 62 and 63 together. Bus Éireann has advised that the parent was verbally informed of the situation regarding transport for the child in question at the end of the last school year. The family was offered a special transport grant to cover the cost of private transport arrangements while Bus Éireann was examining the provision of an alternative...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (25 Oct 2012)

Ciarán Cannon: Bus Éireann which operates the school transport scheme on behalf of my Department has advised that an application for transport was received for the pupil referred to by the Deputy in September 2012, at which stage the service was operating to capacity. The Remote Area Grant may be payable to eligible families for whom no transport service is available. In this regard, my Department has...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Vocational Training Opportunities Scheme (6 Nov 2012)

Ciarán Cannon: The VTOS programme provides second chance education and training courses of up to two years duration for people who are 21 years of age or over, and who are at least six months unemployed. People participating in VTOS who are in receipt of Jobs Seekers Benefit (JA) or Job Seekers Allowance (JB) receive a payment in lieu of this from the VEC for the duration of their course. These payments are...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Youthreach Programme (6 Nov 2012)

Ciarán Cannon: The person referred to by the Deputy is attending a Youthreach centre operated by County Meath Vocational Education Committee since 13 September 2012 on a full time basis.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (6 Nov 2012)

Ciarán Cannon: Under the terms of my Department's School Transport Scheme children are eligible for transport where they meet the minimum distance criteria and are attending their nearest school, as determined by the Department/Bus Éireann, having regard to ethos and language. An eligible child for whom no transport service is available may, following an application for transport within the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training (6 Nov 2012)

Ciarán Cannon: The programme for Government committed the Department of Education and Skills to provide an additional 30,000 training places across the education and training system, distributed in line with the recommendations of the Expert Group on Future Skills Needs. Higher Education Springboard programme Back to Education Initiative Post Leaving Certificate places Labour Market Education and Training...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (6 Nov 2012)

Ciarán Cannon: The full terms of reference for the School Transport Appeals Board, which is independent of my Department, are available on the Department's website at www.education.ie. In the current year to date the board has considered 125 cases and in all but one of these cases found that the terms and conditions of the scheme were properly applied by the Department and Bus Éireann. The one case...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (6 Nov 2012)

Ciarán Cannon: Under the terms of my Department's post primary school transport scheme, children are eligible for transport where they reside not less than 4.8 km from and are attending their nearest education centre, as determined by my Department/Bus Éireann, having regard to ethos and language. Children who are not eligible for school transport under the terms of the scheme may apply to Bus...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (6 Nov 2012)

Ciarán Cannon: Bus Éireann operates the school transport scheme on behalf of my Department; it is responsible for the time-tabling and routing of services. Seats are allocated and tickets issued up to the maximum seating capacity of a school bus and once the seating capacity is reached, no further tickets can be issued. On any given school day it is impossible to anticipate the exact number of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Adult Education (6 Nov 2012)

Ciarán Cannon: Migrants, including workers and refugees, will continue to be able to access a range of courses that have always been provided by Vocational Education Committees (VECs) under the Adult Literacy and Community Education Scheme (ALCES) and the Back to Education Initiative (BTEI), both of which are funded by my Department. In 2011, some 12,000 people people accessed English as a Second Language...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (6 Nov 2012)

Ciarán Cannon: Under the terms of my Department's Post Primary School Transport Scheme, children are eligible for transport where they reside not less than 4.8 kms from and are attending their nearest education centre as determined by my Department/Bus Éireann, having regard to ethos and language. Bus Éireann, which operates the school transport scheme on behalf of my Department, has advised...