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Written Answers — School Transport: School Transport (12 Oct 2010)

Seán Haughey: Under the terms of my Department's Post Primary School Transport Scheme, a pupil is eligible for school transport if s/he resides 4.8 kilometres or more from her/his local post primary education centre. Children who are fully eligible for transport to the post-primary centre in the catchment area in which they reside, may apply for transport on a concessionary basis to a post-primary centre...

Written Answers — Third Level Fees: Third Level Fees (12 Oct 2010)

Seán Haughey: A former worker of a company who is deemed eligible for EGF is not required to pay any fees or charges for participation on accredited education and training courses during the period covered by EGF funding. The Higher Education Authority is providing all relevant third level institutions with guidance in relation to EGF issues. The individual should therefore contact the institution...

Written Answers — Adult Education: Adult Education (12 Oct 2010)

Seán Haughey: Following an open tender competition in which 370 tenders were received, I announced in June details of the first call of the Labour Market Activation Fund to support 26 different organisations across the private, not-for-profit and public sectors. This has resulted in 6,589 additional training and education places in programmes for priority groups of the unemployed. Overall indications of...

Written Answers — School Transport: School Transport (13 Oct 2010)

Seán Haughey: Under the terms of my Department's Primary School Transport Scheme, pupils who reside 3.2 kilometres or more from, and are attending their nearest suitable national school, as determined by my Department, are eligible for free school transport. The safety and welfare of pupils travelling on school transport services are of paramount importance to my Department and Bus Éireann, which...

Written Answers — Community Employment Schemes: Community Employment Schemes (13 Oct 2010)

Seán Haughey: I understand that the Deputy's question is intended to relate to the operation of Community Employment Scheme. In that regard, I wish to inform the Deputy that there are no specific proposals at present to make changes to the Community Employment Scheme in Waterford. The Employment Programmes and Services and Skills Training (Transfer of Departmental Administration and Ministerial Functions)...

Written Answers — Graduate Support Schemes: Graduate Support Schemes (14 Oct 2010)

Seán Haughey: The Government introduced last year the Work Placement Programme (WPP) to provide valuable work experience to graduates and non-graduates who are unemployed. The WPP applies to all sectors of the economy, including the Civil and Public Service. The aim of the programme is to keep the unemployed close to the labour market and to provide them with relevant work experience that will assist...

Written Answers — Course Certificates: Course Certificates (14 Oct 2010)

Seán Haughey: I understand from the college concerned that in April 2010, the person referred to by the Deputy attended a Sports Stadium Steward course. On commencement of the course, all participants were informed that they would be entered for FETAC assessment in November 2010 and that certificates would be issued by FETAC in January 2011.

Written Answers — FÁS Training Programmes: FÁS Training Programmes (14 Oct 2010)

Seán Haughey: I refer the Deputy to the reply given to Parliamentary Question 36506/10 of 12 October 2010.

Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (14 Oct 2010)

Seán Haughey: 2057The recommendations made in the report of the Special Group on Public Service Numbers and Expenditure Programmes relating to my Department are set out in Chapter 6 of the second volume of the Group's report. In addition, recommendations in relation to Labour Force Development are set out in Chapter 7. These recommendations were fully assessed and considered by my Department. The...

Written Answers — Community Employment: Community Employment (19 Oct 2010)

Seán Haughey: There are currently 6,346 participants listed as having previously been in receipt of Jobseekers Allowance (JA) as at 13th October, 2010, and 4,458 previously in receipt of Jobseekers Benefit (which is not means-tested). All lone parents and persons with disabilities participating on CE retain all or part of their social welfare payment simultaneously to their CE payment. FAS does not record...

Written Answers — School Transport: School Transport (19 Oct 2010)

Seán Haughey: The school transport scheme, which is operated by Bus Éireann on my Department's behalf, facilitates the transportation of over 125,000 children to primary and post-primary schools each day including approximately 8,000 children with special educational needs. The purpose of the scheme is to ensure access to primary and post primary education for children, who because of where they live,...

Written Answers — FÁS Training Programmes: FÁS Training Programmes (19 Oct 2010)

Seán Haughey: A total of 165 apprentices registered by FÁS with either home addresses or last employer based in County Clare are currently registered as redundant. At end September 2010, 7,614 of a total 18,380 apprentices nationally were registered by FÁS as being redundant. Of this number, 4,320 can progress in their apprenticeship having reached the minimum qualifying standard at the relevant...

Written Answers — School Transport: School Transport (19 Oct 2010)

Seán Haughey: As the Deputy is aware, School Transport was approved by Government as a topic for inclusion as part of the 2009-2011 round of Value for Money Reviews. This review looked at the original objectives of the scheme, whether these objectives remain valid today, the extent to which the objectives are being achieved, and whether there are possibilities for economies or efficiencies that would...

Written Answers — School Transport: School Transport (19 Oct 2010)

Seán Haughey: Under the terms of my Department's Primary School Transport Scheme, pupils who reside 3.2 kilometres or more from, and are attending their nearest suitable national school as determined by my Department are eligible for free school transport. Bus Éireann is responsible for the operation of the school transport service on behalf of my Department. Routes are planned in such a way to ensure...

Written Answers — School Transport: School Transport (19 Oct 2010)

Seán Haughey: Under the terms of the Primary School Transport scheme pupils are eligible for free transport if they reside 3.2 kilometres or more from, and are attending, their nearest national school or school of amalgamation. In the case of amalgamations, pupils residing in a closed school area may be deemed eligible to the school of amalgamation only. Bus Éireann, which operates the school transport...

Written Answers — FÁS Training Programmes: FÁS Training Programmes (19 Oct 2010)

Seán Haughey: The December 2009 Budget aligned the payment of FÁS training allowances to a person's entitlement to welfare supports. Consequently, where a trainee is entitled to a welfare payment at the commencement of their training course a training allowance is payable. If a trainee is not entitled to welfare supports at the time of the commencement of their training course they will not receive a...

Written Answers — FÁS Training Programmes: FÁS Training Programmes (19 Oct 2010)

Seán Haughey: At end September 2010, 7,614 of a total 18,380 apprentices were registered by FÁS as being redundant. Of this number, 4,320 can progress in their apprenticeship having reached the minimum qualifying standard at the relevant training phase while 3,294 must first successfully pass their outstanding assessment(s) to permit similar progression. FÁS has introduced a number of measures to date...

Written Answers — School Transport: School Transport (19 Oct 2010)

Seán Haughey: The school transport scheme, which is operated by Bus Éireann on my Department's behalf, facilitates the transportation of over 125,000 children to primary and post primary schools each day including approximately 8,000 children with special educational needs. School transport services are delivered using a mix of Bus Éireann, both school transport and road passenger vehicles, private...

Seanad: Restructuring of Vocational Education Committees: Statements (19 Oct 2010)

Seán Haughey: I am pleased to come before the House to discuss the restructuring of the vocational education committees. Before I outline the details of the Government's decision, it is important to outline briefly the background to the vocational education committee system and their current role and pay tribute to the ground-breaking and innovative contributions the committees and many dedicated and...

Seanad: Restructuring of Vocational Education Committees: Statements (19 Oct 2010)

Seán Haughey: As always, Senators have provided a very useful and timely discussion on the restructuring of VECs. A number of speakers, including Senators Ormonde, O'Sullivan and Leyden, paid tribute to the valuable role played by the VEC system since its inception 80 years ago. VECs play a wide and important range of functions, as legal patrons of schools, members of boards of management of...