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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]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Diaspora Issues (10 Mar 2021)

Niall Collins: 422. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on matters raised in correspondence in relation to a building (details supplied) in New York; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12482/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Back to Work Enterprise Allowance Scheme (10 Mar 2021)

Niall Collins: 581. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an extension will be allowed to the back to work scheme due to Covid-19 (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12854/21]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (10 Mar 2021)

Niall Collins: 635. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will advise on queries raised in correspondence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12596/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (10 Mar 2021)

Niall Collins: The COVID-19 related suspension of face to face training for apprentices in Training Centres, IoTs and Technological Universities has had a significant impact on craft apprenticeship off-the-job training. When permissible, on-site practical training is also operating at approximately 50% normal capacity to ensure adherence to public health guidance. Since January 11th training facilities...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: SOLAS Administration (10 Mar 2021)

Niall Collins: Under the Safety, Health and Welfare at Work (Construction) Regulations 2013, craft and general construction workers, persons undertaking on-site security work and persons or classes of persons as may be prescribed by the Minister are required to hold a safety awareness registration card (Safe Pass card). In March 2020 the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation amended these...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (10 Mar 2021)

Niall Collins: I propose to take Questions Nos. 681 and 682 together. The Apprenticeship Jobs Portal (www.apprenticeshipjobs.ie) was launched in April 2019 to enhance the visibility and accessibility of apprenticeship job vacancies, and to assist small companies to advertise apprenticeship jobs to a wide audience. The platform is building traction month-on-month, with 1,264 employers now registered on the...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Breeding Regulations (10 Mar 2021)

Niall Collins: 1002. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on correspondence in relation to pedigree boer goat breeders (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12490/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beekeeping Industry (10 Mar 2021)

Niall Collins: 1035. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has received representations from an organisation (details supplied) in relation to the potential threat to beekeepers here from the small hive beetle further to reports regarding the importation of bees into the UK via Northern Ireland from Italy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13377/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (10 Mar 2021)

Niall Collins: 1041. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will give special consideration to young farmers who started farming since the closure of the last GLAS scheme to be eligible for the traditional farm building scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13470/21]