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- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Apr 2012)
Ciarán Cannon: No, it is not.
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Apr 2012)
Ciarán Cannon: I move amendment No. 14: In page 6, before section 8, but in Part 2, to insert the following new section: 9.âSection 13 of the Principal Act is amended by substituting the following subsection for subsection (4A) (inserted by section 13 of the Social Welfare Act 2011): "(4A) Where a person realises a gain byâ (a) the exercise of a right in accordance with section 128 of the Act of 1997,...
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Apr 2012)
Ciarán Cannon: I move amendment No. 15: In page 6, before section 8, but in Part 2, to insert the following new section: 10.âSection 2(1) of the Principal Act is amended in the definition of "sharebased remuneration" (inserted by section 13 of the Social Welfare Act 2011)â (a) in paragraph (d), by substituting "section 510(2) of that Act," for "section 510(2) of that Act, and", (b) in paragraph (e), by...
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Apr 2012)
Ciarán Cannon: I move amendment No. 16: In page 6, before section 8, but in Part 2, to insert the following new section: 11.â(1) Section 34A(1)(a) (inserted by section 13 of the Social Welfare Act 2011) of the Principal Act is amendedâ (a) in subparagraph (i)â (i) by substituting "pursuant to paragraph (a)(ii) or (b)(ii) of the definition of 'reckonable earnings' specified in" for "by virtue of...
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Apr 2012)
Ciarán Cannon: I move amendment No. 17: In page 6, before section 8, but in Part 2, to insert the following new section: 12.âSection 198 of the Principal Act is amended by inserting the following subsections after subsection (5A) (inserted by section 14 of the Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2008): "(5AA) A person shall not be entitled to the supplement referred to in subsection (5) unless,...
- Written Answers — Departmental Agencies: Departmental Agencies (25 Apr 2012)
Ciarán Cannon: I propose to take Questions Nos. 64 and 66 together. Following the Government Decision to create SOLAS, an Implementation Group was set up to establish SOLAS. I am chairing this Group and its membership includes representatives from the Department of Education and Skills, FÃS, the Irish Vocational Education Association and the Department of Social Protection. The Group has been meeting...
- Written Answers — FÁS Training Programmes: FÁS Training Programmes (25 Apr 2012)
Ciarán Cannon: At present further education is delivered by the Vocational Education Committees while general training is delivered by FÃS Training Services. As part of its annual planning exercise to ensure that its courses, and the courses it procures, remain relevant to the needs of an evolving labour market and to the needs of its clients, FÃS reviews the training provision for which it has a...
- Written Answers — FÁS Training Programmes: FÁS Training Programmes (25 Apr 2012)
Ciarán Cannon: The Standards Based Apprenticeship Programme is a demand led alternance training and education programme for employed apprentices. I understand that based on previous years' experience, the anticipated total apprenticeship registration in 2012 is expected to be approximately 1,200. The number of apprentices who have been registered by employers by trade in the three months to 31/3/2012 is 389...
- Written Answers — Adult Education: Adult Education (24 Apr 2012)
Ciarán Cannon: Under the Programme for Government, this Government will make literacy and basic workplace skills a national priority and drive the integration of literacy into a wider variety of further education and training programmes as part of the establishment of SOLAS. My Department recently published new operational guidelines for adult literacy and community education provision which highlighted...
- Written Answers — School Transport: School Transport (24 Apr 2012)
Ciarán Cannon: Changes to school transport services were announced in the 2011 Budget and derive from recommendations made in the Value for Money Review of the scheme. These changes included the requirement that a minimum of 10 eligible pupils, residing in a distinct locality, would be required to retain or establish a school transport service from the commencement of the 2011/12 school year. Decisions in...
- Written Answers — FÁS Training Programmes: FÁS Training Programmes (24 Apr 2012)
Ciarán Cannon: In 2012, at a time of reducing resources, my Department will fund over 450,000 education and training places across the range of provision in the higher education, further education and training sectors. In addition, FAS and the VECs have been requested to prioritise the long-term unemployed in their 2012 provision. Interim referral protocols have also been agreed, which will facilitate the...
- Written Answers — Apprenticeship Programmes: Apprenticeship Programmes (24 Apr 2012)
Ciarán Cannon: The information requested by the deputy on the number of apprentices on the live register is not available to FÃS. However, the number of apprentices who were notified to FÃS as redundant, and are recorded on the FÃS apprenticeship database at the 31st March 2012, is 4,704. Of this group, there are 2,183 who have not reached the minimum qualifying standard in off-the-job training, and...
- Written Answers — Apprenticeship Programmes: Apprenticeship Programmes (24 Apr 2012)
Ciarán Cannon: I understand that the number of apprentices who had a status of redundant at any time during the period 1/1/2008 and the 20/4/2012, and who have completed their FAS apprenticeship training and have been awarded the FETAC Advanced Certificate- Craft is 3,620. Furthermore, I am informed that a further 43 individuals have completed their apprenticeship and are currently waiting the Award of the...
- Written Answers — Courses Accreditation: Courses Accreditation (24 Apr 2012)
Ciarán Cannon: I understand that Apprentices, who have previous trade related work experience and or trade related national or international qualifications, may apply for a training phase exemption up to and including Phase 5 of an apprenticeship programme by completing an Exemptions Application Form and submitting with a portfolio of evidence to FÃS for consideration. The recently announced Government...
- Written Answers — FÁS Training Programmes: FÁS Training Programmes (24 Apr 2012)
Ciarán Cannon: Following on from the successful outcomes of the Labour Market Activation Fund which commenced in 2010 and concluded last year, funding of â¬20 million has been allocated from the National Training Fund in 2012 for a new Labour Market Education and Training Fund, which will be managed by FÃS and will deliver up to 6,500 education and training places. FÃS is currently developing proposals...
- Written Answers — Adult Education: Adult Education (19 Apr 2012)
Ciarán Cannon: Under the Programme for Government, this Government will make literacy and basic workplace skills a national priority and drive the integration of literacy into a wider variety of further education and training programmes as part of the establishment of SOLAS. My Department recently published new operational guidelines for adult literacy and community education provision which highlighted...
- Written Answers — Departmental Agencies: Departmental Agencies (19 Apr 2012)
Ciarán Cannon: Following the Government Decision to create SOLAS, an Implementation Group was set up to establish SOLAS. I am chairing this Group and its membership includes representatives from the Department of Education and Skills, FÃS, the Irish Vocational Education Association and the Department of Social Protection. The Group has met nine times to date and the focus of the Group has been on...
- Written Answers — Employment Support Services: Employment Support Services (19 Apr 2012)
Ciarán Cannon: In the Programme for Government we undertook to introduce a better approach to how the State engages with and supports the unemployed to get back into the workforce. The approach set out in Pathways to Work is to build on existing Government policies to ensure that as many new job opportunities as possible are filled by those on the Live Register. Pathways to Work points out that at a time...
- Written Answers — FÁS Training Programmes: FÁS Training Programmes (19 Apr 2012)
Ciarán Cannon: I propose to take questions Nos. 82 and 83 together. The Local Training Initiative (LTI) programme is a training intervention designed to offer significant additional supports to enable socially excluded persons to avail of FÃS training. The FAS budget contains a sum of â¬33.406m for LTIs in 2012. A national review of LTI programmes is being undertaken in 2012 to ensure the continuing...
- Written Answers — European Globalisation Fund: European Globalisation Fund (18 Apr 2012)
Ciarán Cannon: The Irish authorities haves made a total of seven applications to date for the co-financed assistance of approved guidance, training, education and enterprise programmes in support of redundant workers under the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund (EGF). The EU currently provides up to 50% (65% for approved applications submitted between 1 May 2009 and 31 December 2011) of approved...