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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Appeals (24 Sep 2019)

John Halligan: School Transport is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department. In the 2018/2019 school year over 117,500 children, including over 13,000 children with special educational needs, were transported in over 5,000 vehicles on a daily basis to primary and post-primary schools throughout the country covering over 100 million kilometres at a cost of over...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (24 Sep 2019)

John Halligan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 189 to 192, inclusive, together. School transport is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department of Education and Skills. In the 2018/19 school year there were over 117,500 children, including over 13,000 children with special educational needs, transported in over 5,000 vehicles on a daily basis to primary and...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: School Transport (18 Sep 2019)

John Halligan: I thank the Deputy. I have asked the Department to deal with the query concerning her area. The school transport scheme is a significant operation. It is managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of my Department. We are moving 117,500 children twice a day all over the country, including over 13,000 children with special needs. There are 5,000 vehicles in use per day, for primary and...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: School Transport (18 Sep 2019)

John Halligan: On the issue of seeing spaces on buses, about 9% or 10% of people who pay for school transport do not take it up. It is very difficult to deal with that. If people pay for it, they may feel they will take a chance on driving their kids to school anyway. We have taken legal views on that and it is not within our remit to return the money to these families and request that they give us back...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Provision (18 Sep 2019)

John Halligan: School Transport is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department.  In the 2018/2019 school year over 117,500 children, including over 13,000 children with special educational needs, were transported in over 5,000 vehicles on a daily basis to primary and post-primary schools throughout the country covering over 100 million kilometres at a cost...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Applications (18 Sep 2019)

John Halligan: School Transport is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department.  In the 2018/2019 school year over 117,500 children, including over 13,000 children with special educational needs, were transported in over 5,000 vehicles on a daily basis to primary and post-primary schools throughout the country covering over 100 million kilometres at a cost...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Appeals (18 Sep 2019)

John Halligan: School Transport is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department.  In the 2018/2019 school year over 117,500 children, including over 13,000 children with special educational needs, were transported in over 5,000 vehicles on a daily basis to primary and post-primary schools throughout the country covering over 100 million kilometres at a cost...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Provision (18 Sep 2019)

John Halligan: School Transport is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department.  In the 2018/2019 school year over 117,500 children, including over 13,000 children with special educational needs, were transported in over 5,000 vehicles on a daily basis to primary and post-primary schools throughout the country covering over 100 million kilometres at a cost...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Provision (18 Sep 2019)

John Halligan: School Transport is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department.  In the 2018/2019 school year over 117,500 children, including over 13,000 children with special educational needs, were transported in over 5,000 vehicles on a daily basis to primary and post-primary schools throughout the country covering over 100 million kilometres at a cost...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Administration (18 Sep 2019)

John Halligan: School Transport is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department.  In the 2018/2019 school year over 117,500 children, including over 13,000 children with special educational needs, were transported in over 5,000 vehicles on a daily basis to primary and post-primary schools throughout the country covering over 100 million kilometres at a cost...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Sep 2019)

John Halligan: It is incorrect to say that Ireland's research is in crisis. It is anything but in crisis. In research and innovation last year alone, between private and Government investment, there was approximately €3.7 billion, €700 million more than what was given previously. As the Deputy is aware, most of our funding comes from Horizon 2020. We have taken in €700 million in...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Youth Guarantee (17 Sep 2019)

John Halligan: The Youth Employment Initiative (YEI) is one of the main EU financial resources to support the implementation of the EU Youth Guarantee. It is integrated into European Social Fund (ESF) programming as a dedicated priority axis within the ESF Programme for Employability, Inclusion and Learning 2014-2020 (PEIL). The specific YEI allocation for Ireland of €68m (for 2014 and 2015) is...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Data (17 Sep 2019)

John Halligan: SOLAS do not maintain a record of the number of persons that unsuccessfully sought or applied for apprenticeships as apprentices no not apply to become an apprentice through SOLAS. In order to train as an apprentice a person first needs to be recruited by an approved employer. There is no central record of applications to employers for apprenticeship positions as this is part of wider labour...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Appeals (17 Sep 2019)

John Halligan: School Transport is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department. In the 2018/2019 school year over 117,500 children, including over 13,000 children with special educational needs, were transported in over 5,000 vehicles on a daily basis to primary and post-primary schools throughout the country covering over 100 million kilometres at a cost of over...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards Funding (17 Sep 2019)

John Halligan: SOLAS distributes further education and training (FET) grants to the 16 Education and Training Boards (ETBs) through a strategic funding process covering all of their further education and training programmes, including adult literacy. The ETBs annually bid for funding, in line with their individual three-year strategic performance agreement with SOLAS. The funding process is governed by...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards Places (17 Sep 2019)

John Halligan: Officials in my Department have made enquiries with Kerry Education and Training Board (KETB) in relation to this matter. I understand from KETB that due to the very high demand and learner requirements for this course, an application screening and interview process is required in the selection procedure. There are only 14 places available in each instance of the course and there is no...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Provision (17 Sep 2019)

John Halligan: School Transport is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department. In the 2018/2019 school year over 117,500 children, including over 13,000 children with special educational needs, were transported in over 5,000 vehicles on a daily basis to primary and post-primary schools throughout the country covering over 100 million kilometres at a cost of over...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Appeals (17 Sep 2019)

John Halligan: School Transport is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department. The purpose of my Department's School Transport Scheme is, having regard to available resources, to support the transport to and from school of children who reside remote from their nearest school. In the 2018/2019 school year over 117,500 children, including over 13,000 children with...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: National Training Fund (6 Sep 2019)

John Halligan: The National Training Fund (NTF) 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.The Act also provides for the funding of research to provide information on existing and likely future skills requirements of the economy. One of the key features of the NTF is its flexibility and the way it...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Data (6 Sep 2019)

John Halligan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 236 and 237 together. School Transport is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department. In the 2018/2019 school year over 117,500 children, including over 13,000 children with special educational needs, were transported in over 5,000 vehicles on a daily basis to primary and post-primary schools throughout the country...