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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...

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: On the hospitality and tourism sector, the Chair will be aware that the Minister and I recently launched an initiative in the presence of the Irish Hotels Federation. The Chair asked about contacts and communications with the sector. Suffice it to say that it is regularly in contact with us and with the Department. This is against the backdrop, which we all know, of the sector being shut...

Young People and Access to Further and Higher Education: Motion [Private Members] (11 Mar 2021)

Niall Collins: I thank the Deputies for their contributions to this debate. I know that access to education is an issue close to the heart of many Members. As the Minister, Deputy Harris, outlined, since the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science was formed last August we have been working to build a strong, flexible and inclusive further and higher education sector...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (11 Mar 2021)

Niall Collins: The primary resource for prospective apprentices and guidance counsellors on apprenticeship is the national apprenticeship website www.apprenticeship.ie. It is a one-stop service which offers career guidance professionals education tool kits and extensive information on all current apprenticeships offered in Ireland. The Apprenticeship Jobs Portal (www.apprenticeshipjobs.ie) was launched...

Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Statements (10 Mar 2021)

Niall Collins: I have not seen the correspondence to which the Deputy referred. I will review it. I assure the Deputy that there is no agenda on my part or that of the Minister to privatise anything.

Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Statements (10 Mar 2021)

Niall Collins: In regard to the apprenticeship backlog and the return to on-the-job training, a small number of critical and time-sensitive phase 2 apprenticeship classes returned to training on 1 March, with strict Covid-19 measures in place that were agreed through the stakeholders forum. If all goes well with that cohort, another group will return on 15 March. As I said in my opening statement, we...

Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Statements (10 Mar 2021)

Niall Collins: I will revert to the Deputy on the matter.

Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Statements (10 Mar 2021)

Niall Collins: I thank Deputy Duncan Smith. With regard to apprenticeships, there are no boundaries or limits to what we can look into in terms of the feasibility of running and developing an apprenticeship programme. That is to follow on from what the Minister, Deputy Harris, said about that. What the Deputy outlined is absolutely the case. These are critical skills that are required in a modern...

Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Statements (10 Mar 2021)

Niall Collins: I thank the Minister for outlining the important work being undertaken by the Department. I will speak briefly on the topics of literacy, numeracy and digital literacy, for which a strategy is currently being developed, apprenticeships, skills and eCollege. Work is well under way by SOLAS on the development of a ten-year adult literacy, numeracy and digital literacy strategy. This new...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (10 Mar 2021)

Niall Collins: 133. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the status of a matter (details supplied) in relation to critical skills employment permits for immigrant non-consultant hospital doctors; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13645/21]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (10 Mar 2021)

Niall Collins: 134. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when the Covid-19 business aid scheme will be open for applications; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12563/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Public Sector Staff (10 Mar 2021)

Niall Collins: 395. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the persons or grades of persons in the civil and public service and other employments who are prohibited from standing for election to local authorities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13034/21]