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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Apprenticeship Programmes (25 Jun 2024)

Niall Collins: I will request updated information on the numbers. The Deputy has researched some of her own numbers. Suffice it to say that an integral part of our action plan for apprenticeships is that they be rolled out across the Civil Service and public service. That includes local authorities. The Department wants to see that action executed by our local authorities, by the Civil Service and by...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (25 Jun 2024)

Niall Collins: SOLAS is currently undertaking an independent evaluation of the ‘Specialist Training Provision for People with Disabilities’ programme. Under this programme, the 16 Education and Training Boards (ETBs) contract Specialist Training Providers (STPs) to offer vocational training programmes, in specific settings, for persons with disabilities. The basis for this provision is that...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Education (25 Jun 2024)

Niall Collins: As the Deputy is aware, my officials are finishing the terms of reference for the review of Personal Assistance services across tertiary education. Prior to this finalisation, my officials are meeting with the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth regarding a similar review being carried out in relation to HSE-funded personal assistance services.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (25 Jun 2024)

Niall Collins: 172. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a decision on an application by a school (details supplied) will be expedited; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26820/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Heritage Schemes (25 Jun 2024)

Niall Collins: 232. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if additional funding can be given for a thatching grant for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26812/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (20 Jun 2024)

Niall Collins: 126. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if additional funding can be allocated to a project (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26637/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Electoral Process (19 Jun 2024)

Niall Collins: 64. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to calculate the amount payable to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26436/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Youth Services (19 Jun 2024)

Niall Collins: The Youthreach Programme aims to provide early school leavers with the knowledge, skills and confidence required to participate fully in society and progress to further education, training and employment. In Dublin, the Youthreach programme is administered by two Education and Training Boards (ETBs): Dublin Dun Laoghaire and City of Dublin. There are currently 19 Youthreach Centres and 13...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Agriculture Supports (18 Jun 2024)

Niall Collins: 90. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if grant aid funding is available for anaerobic digesters; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26176/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (18 Jun 2024)

Niall Collins: 170. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she can advise and provide assistance on a case (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26178/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Industry (18 Jun 2024)

Niall Collins: 266. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if grant aid funding is available for anaerobic digesters; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26174/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Funding (18 Jun 2024)

Niall Collins: The funding allocated by SOLAS to City of Dublin ETB for Community Training Centres (CTCs), as per the SOLAS Financial Statements, for the years 2020 to 2023, and the allocation for 2024, is provided in the table below: SOLAS 2020 €m 2021 €m 2022 €m 2023 €m 2024 Budgeted €m Community...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Funding (18 Jun 2024)

Niall Collins: The funding allocated by SOLAS to City of Dublin ETB for Youthreach, as reported in the SOLAS Financial Statements, for the years 2020 to 2023, is provided in the table below: CDETB 2020 €m 2021 €m 2022 €m 2023 €m Youthreach 9.478 9.250 9.618 9.796 SOLAS is not in a...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Housing Schemes (11 Jun 2024)

Niall Collins: 197.To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 183 of 7 December 2023, if any further consideration has been given to this issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25436/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (11 Jun 2024)

Niall Collins: 279.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a land transfer (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24761/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Legislative Measures (11 Jun 2024)

Niall Collins: 382.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to provide legislation to regulate light pollution; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24767/24]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Rural Schemes (11 Jun 2024)

Niall Collins: 926.To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development for an update on a matter (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25159/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teagasc na Gaeilge (30 May 2024)

Niall Collins: Tar éis an phlé a rinne mo chuid oifigeach le hOifig an Teachta, is é an tuiscint atá agam ná go mbaineann an cheist seo leis an Aire Oideachais.

Research and Innovation Bill 2024: From the Seanad (29 May 2024)

Niall Collins: I am grateful for the opportunity to address the House. On Committee Stage in the Seanad, I brought forward one technical amendment that relates to an additional section being inserted, section 71, "Confirmation of acts done or purporting to have been done". This is a technical amendment to provide full clarity and continuity of the related provisions in the Statute Book in advance of the...

Research and Innovation Bill 2024: From the Seanad (29 May 2024)

Niall Collins: I thank the Deputy for her contribution and input. I thank all Deputies who have indicated their support for this Bill. I also thank the Senators who contributed to a lengthy debate in the Seanad on the Bill and I thank the officials from the Department for their work on this. Hopefully, it will represent a new horizon for the research community right across Ireland, which is a really...