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Written Answers — FÁS Training Programmes: FÁS Training Programmes (16 Dec 2010)

Seán Haughey: The Board of FÁS recently submitted its proposal for a new training agency. This takes into account the transfer of certain responsibilities from this Department to the Department of Social Protection. The proposal includes: The provision of short to medium training courses ranging from level 3 to 6 on the NFQ delivered through a variety of methods including e learning; The delivery of...

Written Answers — Educational Disadvantage: Educational Disadvantage (16 Dec 2010)

Seán Haughey: The majority of schools include among their pupils, children with disadvantaged backgrounds. In general most schools address the individual needs of these children without recourse to supplementary targeted resources. Evidence has shown that disadvantage associated with poverty and social exclusion assumes a multiplier effect where the levels are highly concentrated in schools. DEIS...

Written Answers — Employment Support Services: Employment Support Services (16 Dec 2010)

Seán Haughey: The Government are committed to ensuring that an appropriate mix of training, work experience and educational responses are in place to support the unemployed and to enhance their employability. The training, work experience and education measures that are being implemented in 2011 are designed to help those who are unemployed gain valuable work experience, maintain close linkages with the...

Written Answers — Vocational Training Opportunities Scheme: Vocational Training Opportunities Scheme (16 Dec 2010)

Seán Haughey: The training allowance referred to by the Deputy is a training bonus payment made to Vocational Training Opportunities Scheme (VTOS), Youthreach and Senior Traveller Training Centre (STTC) participants and FÁS trainees who have been in receipt of their relevant social welfare payment for at least 12 months directly before joining the VTOS, Youthreach, STTC or FAS course. This bonus is paid...

Written Answers — Employment Support Services: Employment Support Services (16 Dec 2010)

Seán Haughey: Last year, in order to minimise the drift into long-term unemployment, the Government through the Cabinet Committee on Economic Renewal, decided to prioritise four cohorts of the unemployed for support and assistance. The four cohorts are; the low skilled; those under 35 years of age; those on the Live Register for longer than 1 year and those suffering from structural unemployment in the...

Written Answers — FÁS Training Programmes: FÁS Training Programmes (16 Dec 2010)

Seán Haughey: Last year, the Government introduced the FÁS Work Placement Programme (WPP) to provide valuable work experience for unemployed individuals. The Work Placement Programme provides up to 9 months work experience to unemployed individuals and is open to employers from all sectors of the economy, including the private, public and the community and voluntary sectors. Since the start of the...

Written Answers — European Globalisation Adjustment Fund: European Globalisation Adjustment Fund (16 Dec 2010)

Seán Haughey: I propose to take Questions Nos. 39 and 43 together. The EU budgetary authorities have recently approved the Irish application for European Globalisation Adjustment Fund (EGF) co-financing assistance in support of 1,135 workers made redundant in 2009 at the S R Technics aircraft maintenance facility at Dublin Airport. This process culminated in the approval by the European Parliament of the...

Written Answers — Community Employment Schemes: Community Employment Schemes (16 Dec 2010)

Seán Haughey: The following are the details of the weekly pay rates for all Community Employment (CE) participants for 2011: CE Single Adult Rate: €208.00Increase for Qualified Adult: €124.80Full rate Child Dependant: €29.80Half rate Child Dependant: €14.90. In line with the transfer of budgetary and policy responsibility for CE to the Department of Social Protection commencing in 2011, the...

Written Answers — FÁS Training Programmes: FÁS Training Programmes (16 Dec 2010)

Seán Haughey: I understand that FÁS, in the implementation of its new Training Standards System, discovered processing issues in the North East which gave rise to errors on requests which had been made by FAS to FETAC. Certificates for 53 learners on 6 courses were involved but the certificates in question had not issued to the learners involved. The errors arise from administrative, processing and data...

Written Answers — FÁS Training Programmes: FÁS Training Programmes (16 Dec 2010)

Seán Haughey: The information in the format requested by the Deputy is not currently readily available. I will respond to him directly with this information as soon as possible.

Written Answers — FÁS Training Programmes: FÁS Training Programmes (16 Dec 2010)

Seán Haughey: Data on post-programme outcomes for FÁS trainees are collected by means of a large follow-up survey carried out every 2/3 years. Two such surveys have been carried out over the period covered in the Question.The most recent survey was conducted in the last quarter of 2009, and covered outcomes for trainees who completed training just over a year earlier (during the period June-September...

Written Answers — FÁS Training Programmes: FÁS Training Programmes (16 Dec 2010)

Seán Haughey: The information requested by the Deputy is being compiled by FÁS. It is a complex exercise and, therefore, the information requested is not easily available. I will reply to the Deputy as soon as I have the figures requested to hand.

Written Answers — School Transport: School Transport (16 Dec 2010)

Seán Haughey: I propose to take Questions Nos. 109 to 112, inclusive, together. The report of the Value for Money Review of the School Transport Scheme, which will outline the recommendations of the Steering Committee, has recently been finalised and the findings and recommendations in the report were considered as part of the budget and estimates process. The report is to be considered by Government in...

Written Answers — Disadvantaged Status: Disadvantaged Status (16 Dec 2010)

Seán Haughey: The school to which the Deputy refers qualifies for a range of staffing supports under Band 1 of DEIS (Delivering Equality of Opportunity in Schools), the action plan for educational inclusion, which includes reduced pupil teacher ratio in primary schools in urban areas with most disadvantage, an allocation of administrative principal on lower figures than generally apply in primary schools...

Written Answers — FÁS Training Programmes: FÁS Training Programmes (16 Dec 2010)

Seán Haughey: I propose to take Questions Nos. 122, 123 and 124 together. As of 15th December 2010 the number of public sector bodies who have applied for and have been approved to participate in the Work Placement Programme is 206.The number of private employers who have applied for and been approved to participate in the Work Placement Programme in 2009 is 559. In addition, the number of private...

Written Answers — Employment Support Services: Employment Support Services (16 Dec 2010)

Seán Haughey: As part of Budget 2010, the Government announced the creation of a €20 million Labour Market Activation Fund, intended to deliver 3,500 places on training and education programmes for the unemployed. Its objective was to stimulate innovation in the provision of training and activation measures for jobseekers seeking to up-skill and get back into work. The Fund is being targeted to...

Higher Education Grants (16 Dec 2010)

Seán Haughey: This question is similar to Question No. 5.

Higher Education Grants (16 Dec 2010)

Seán Haughey: There is a slight difference in regard to mature students, which I will outline. The automatic eligibility of mature students to the higher non-adjacent rate of grant is to be removed from the beginning of the 2011-12 academic year. Mature students who reside 45 km or more from their higher education institution will continue to be eligible for the higher non-adjacent rate of grant. It is...

Higher Education Grants (16 Dec 2010)

Seán Haughey: I am not sure the question is particularly related to this issue.

Higher Education Grants (16 Dec 2010)

Seán Haughey: I take the Deputy's point and note what the Tánaiste said earlier in this regard. On the particular issue, the situation is that all students in similar circumstances should be treated equally. The Tánaiste dealt with a number of other issues arising from this question earlier in the debate. Some of the issues raised by the Deputy in supplementary questions will be dealt with in the Hunt...