Results 201-220 of 11,765 for speaker:Niall Collins

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Irish Language (9 Sep 2024)

Niall Collins: My officials are making enquiries on your behalf and a follow-up response will issue to the Deputy shortly.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Irish Language (9 Sep 2024)

Niall Collins: Officials in my Department have engaged with SOLAS and ETBI in relation to your question. They have confirmed that some unaccredited Irish classes are provided through Community Education provision, with the express purpose of encouraging and supporting learners to develop their basic conversational skills, connect with other interested Irish speakers in their community and to assist parents...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Irish Sign Language (9 Sep 2024)

Niall Collins: My officials are making enquiries on your behalf and a response will issue shortly to the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards (9 Sep 2024)

Niall Collins: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1972 to 1975, inclusive, together. My officials are making enquiries on your behalf and a follow-up response will issue to the Deputy shortly.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (9 Sep 2024)

Niall Collins: As the Deputy is aware, my Department provides funding to SOLAS who distributes it to 16 Education and Training Boards to deliver Further Education and Training (FET) programmes and services at local level including Youthreach. The table below sets out the funding provided to ETBs to deliver Youthreach provision (excluding Community Training Centres) for the period 2019 - 2024: - 2019 ...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (9 Sep 2024)

Niall Collins: I would like to thank the Deputy for the question on this important issue. The waiting period for those waiting for labour market access letters is a matter for the Minister of Justice. I would like to draw the Deputy’s attention to a number of important documents - 2000 White Paper on Adult Education, ‘Learning for Life’, relevant letters from the Department for...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Provision (9 Sep 2024)

Niall Collins: I would like to thank the Deputy for raising this issue with my Department. The Government has invested heavily in Further Education and Training (FET) in the last number of years, increasing FET provision from circa €909 million in 2020 to €1,055 million in 2024 (excluding capital allocation). The 2024 allocation includes €15 million for continued ESOL provision...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (9 Sep 2024)

Niall Collins: Officials in my Department contacted Longford and Westmeath Education and Training Board (LWETB), in relation to this matter. LWETB has confirmed that there are currently no crèche services available through any of its Further Education and Training (FET) colleges. However, all learners are entitled to apply for the Affordable Childcare Scheme, which is funded by the National Childcare...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards (9 Sep 2024)

Niall Collins: As the Deputy may be aware, my Department has invested heavily in Further Education and Training (FET) in the last number of years, increasing FET provision from circa €909 million in 2020 to €1,055 million in 2024 (excluding capital allocation). As the state agency responsible for the FET sector in Ireland, SOLAS allocates the bulk of this funding to the 16 Education and...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Primary Medical Certificates (23 Jul 2024)

Niall Collins: 332.To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 245 of 14 May 2024, if he will address issues which have arisen (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31900/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Legislative Measures (23 Jul 2024)

Niall Collins: 1677.To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he can advise on the purpose of a Statutory Instrument (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32492/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Correspondence (23 Jul 2024)

Niall Collins: 1757.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth for an update on a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31249/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (23 Jul 2024)

Niall Collins: 2070.To ask the Minister for Health for an update on a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31382/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (23 Jul 2024)

Niall Collins: 2071.To ask the Minister for Health for an update on a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31383/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (23 Jul 2024)

Niall Collins: 2128.To ask the Minister for Health for an update on a matter (details suppled); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31698/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Prison Service (23 Jul 2024)

Niall Collins: As the Deputy is aware, the Prison Education Taskforce was established in May 2023. I co-chair the Taskforce with Minister for Law Reform, James Browne TD. With representatives from both Departments, the Irish Prison Service, SOLAS, the National Apprenticeship Office, Education and Training Boards Ireland, the Probation Service, Maynooth University and former prisoners, the Taskforce aims to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Disability Services (23 Jul 2024)

Niall Collins: While there in no dedicated Disability Access Officer post in the ETB sector, fostering Inclusion is one of the three core pillars of the Further Education and Training (FET) Strategy 2020-2024 SOLAS publication. This is FET Learners with Disabilities 2022 found 6.8% of all learners enrolled in FET programmes, that is nearly 13,000 learners, reported having at least one type of disability. A...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Funding (23 Jul 2024)

Niall Collins: The NTF levy is collected by the Revenue Commissions as part of the PRSI collection system. The funds collected are included in the transfer of gross PRSI from the Revenue Commissioners to the Social Insurance Fund of the Department of Social Protection which undertakes an apportionment exercise to analyse PRSI collection data and to apportion funds to the Social Insurance Fund, the Health...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Adult Education Provision (23 Jul 2024)

Niall Collins: My officials have liaised with SOLAS in respect of your question who have advised that they are supporting Cork ETB in seeking to develop a facility in Macroom to support their FET delivery including Youthreach. I am advised that discussions with a potential landlord are in progress and once clear cost estimates are available, an application will be submitted to my Department for consideration.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Seirbhísí Oideachais Leanúnaigh agus Scileanna (23 Jul 2024)

Niall Collins: Tá oifigigh i mo Roinnse tar éis fiosrúchán a dhéanamh, thar do cheann, le SOLAS agus tá sé curtha in iúl acusan gurb é an costas bliantúil measta a bhain le cúrsaí Gaeilge a sholáthar trí dheich mBord Oideachais agus Oiliúna in 2024 ná €345,200. In 2023, ghlac thart ar 1,459 foghlaimeoir uathúla...