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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes (24 Mar 2021)

Niall Collins: 977. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of a matter (details supplied) regarding community employment schemes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14377/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (24 Mar 2021)

Niall Collins: Apprenticeship is a demand driven programme and therefore the number of apprenticeship placements is determined by employers within any given sector. The impact of Covid-19 on all industries resulted in a decrease of new apprentice registrations generally in 2020 (5,326 down from 6,177 in 2019).  The introduction of the Apprenticeship Incentivisation Scheme, which provides...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: SOLAS Training and Education Programmes (24 Mar 2021)

Niall Collins: Craft apprenticeships represent 25 of the 60 available apprenticeship programmes and 85% of total apprentice registrations as at the end of 2020. Craft apprenticeships consist of seven phases of training, three of which are off-the-job and delivered by Education and Training Boards, Institutes of Technology and Technological Universities across the country. Start and end dates for an...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (24 Mar 2021)

Niall Collins: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1114, 1116, 1124 and 1131 together. There has been a 90% increase in the apprentice population since 2015.  Existing off-the-job training facilities, particularly in Electrical and Plumbing apprenticeships had been coming under increasing pressure to facilitate the rapid growth in apprentice population. The COVID-19 related suspension of face to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (24 Mar 2021)

Niall Collins: Apprenticeship is undertaken under a contract of employment and apprentices are therefore employees. There are 60 apprenticeships currently available and of these it is the 25 craft apprenticeships which are primarily affected by Covid-19.  The trade unions which represent these apprentices are members of the National Apprenticeship Advisory Committee...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Tourism Industry (24 Mar 2021)

Niall Collins: The Skills to Advance policy framework was launched in 2018. The framework provides guidance, direction and targets for Education and Training Boards (ETBs) in supporting the upskilling of those in employment, working both directly with learners and through their employers The two customised programmes, referred to by the Deputy,  were...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (24 Mar 2021)

Niall Collins: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1132, 1133 and 1136 together. As part of an extensive consultation process to inform the new Action Plan for Apprenticeship feedback was gathered from the 3,750 apprentices who answered a survey on their experience of the system. In accessing apprenticeship programmes, by far the majority (69%) of respondents accessed their apprenticeship through friends...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (24 Mar 2021)

Niall Collins: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1134, 1135 and 1169 together. The Apprenticeship Incentivisation Scheme (AIS) was introduced in July 2020 and provides an employer grant totalling €3,000 per new apprentice registration between the period 01 March 2020 and 30 June 2021. This comprises an initial €2,000 payment on registration followed by a further...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (24 Mar 2021)

Niall Collins: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1139 and 1140 together. The information in relation to the apprentices enrolled per year since 2006, new registrations per year since 2006 is attached along with details of the relevant consortia lead and the number of employers with apprentices registered under each programme as at December 2020. Information in relation to the breakdown of existing staff...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (24 Mar 2021)

Niall Collins: Apprentices are excluded from the provisions of the National Minimum Wage Act 2000.  The rates of pay for the 25 craft apprenticeship programmes are agreed by the partners within the relevant sector, or are set out in Sectoral Employment Orders (Construction Sector and Mechanical Engineering Building Services Contracting Sector). Rates vary between occupations and sectors but...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (24 Mar 2021)

Niall Collins: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1142 to 1144, inclusive, 1160, 1168, 1171 and 1173 together. The most recent figures for the total estimated annual cost per apprentice are from the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform Spending Review of Apprenticeships which was published in 2019. The figure for craft apprenticeship is €7,159 with an average cost of €9,877 per...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: National Training Fund (24 Mar 2021)

Niall Collins: The National Training Fund Expenditure Report is normally published mid year based on annual expenditure allocations. In 2020, due largely to responses to the Covid-19 pandemic, there were revisions to expenditure allocations and spending priorities throughout the year. An expenditure report incorporating the revised allocations and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: National Training Fund (24 Mar 2021)

Niall Collins: As part of the policy of investing in Higher and Further Education and Training through a reformed National Training Fund (NTF), the estimates for 2020 included the transfer of €28.2m of labour market-focused higher education provision from Exchequer funding to the NTF.  There were no such transfers in the 2021 estimates.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Correspondence (24 Mar 2021)

Niall Collins: The trade union movement are an integral part of the delivery of the apprenticeship system in Ireland. This is achieved through membership of the National Apprenticeship Advisory Committee (NAAC), a subcommittee of SOLAS, as well as the Apprenticeship Council which has overseen the expansion of apprenticeship over the last five year period to reach a total of 60 programmes across all sectors...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (24 Mar 2021)

Niall Collins: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1165 and 1166 together. Craft apprentices attending off-the-job training in an ETB, IoT or TU are eligible for either accommodation or travel allowances, depending on the distance from the apprentices home to the site of off-the-job training.  These allowances are payable to relevant trainees on further education and training...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (24 Mar 2021)

Niall Collins: An Annual Student Contribution (ASC) is levied on all students attending Institutes of Technology (IoTs).  The amount of ASC charged to apprentices is calculated on a pro rata basis of the time which they spend in IoTs during the academic year. In cases where training is delivered in an Education and Training Board there is no contribution made by the apprentice. For craft...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (24 Mar 2021)

Niall Collins: Apprenticeship in Ireland is funded from the National Training Fund (NTF) which was established by the National Training Fund Act, 2000, as a dedicated fund to support the training of those in employment, and those seeking employment. It is funded through an employer levy of 1% of reckonable earnings in respect of employees in classes A and H employments, representing approximately 75 per...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (24 Mar 2021)

Niall Collins: The availability of the information requested in relation to the number of apprentices that have been employed across the public sector in each of the years 2004 to 2011 is currently being assessed by SOLAS and will be forwarded to the Deputy if available. The Programme for Government has committed to taking the lead on boosting the availability and uptake of apprenticeship...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (24 Mar 2021)

Niall Collins: 1305. To ask the Minister for Health if he will respond to matters raised in correspondence by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13889/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (24 Mar 2021)

Niall Collins: 1347. To ask the Minister for Health the vaccine category a person (details supplied) falls into; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14013/21]