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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]

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

Niall Collins: 1350. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to a matter raised in correspondence by a person (details supplied) in relation to protests outside a hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14024/21]

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

Niall Collins: 1351. To ask the Minister for Health if he will respond to a matter raised in correspondence by a person (details supplied) in relation to intern doctors; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14027/21]

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

Niall Collins: 1379. To ask the Minister for Health when retail workers and supermarket workers will be vaccinated; if they will be considered as part of the key worker category; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14084/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (24 Mar 2021)

Niall Collins: 1774. To ask the Minister for Health if persons with Down syndrome are entitled to a medical card; the reason some holders of a medical card who have Down syndrome are having their medical cards reviewed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15400/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (24 Mar 2021)

Niall Collins: 1965. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to introduce a scheme to replace the AEOS scheme which finished 12 months ago; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14534/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Targeted Agricultural Modernisation Scheme (24 Mar 2021)

Niall Collins: 1967. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a farmer (details supplied) will be called for an oral hearing in relation to their TAMS application. [14649/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Wildlife Control (24 Mar 2021)

Niall Collins: 2009. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the action he plans to take regarding the large herd of wild goats impacting on farmers in west County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15194/21]

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 26 — Education (Revised)
Vote 45 — Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Revised) (23 Mar 2021)

Niall Collins: I thank the Deputy for his question on apprenticeships. As he knows, the apprenticeship action plan is in gestation. The consultation process has closed and is being assessed. More than 3,750 apprentices and some 340 employers took part in the consultation and there were more than 60 written submissions. When the action plan is published there will be specific targets in it. As the...

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 26 — Education (Revised)
Vote 45 — Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Revised) (23 Mar 2021)

Niall Collins: Later this week the Minister and I will make an announcement on providing capital funding of the order of €20 million for the provision of apprenticeships. Suffice it to say that any moneys from the training fund that remain unused will be surrendered and made available again. On placements, we are cognisant of the issue the Deputy has raised. We all hear of it every day of the...