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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Personal Public Service Numbers (12 Nov 2020)

Niall Collins: 269. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a PPS number for a person (details supplied) will issue; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35959/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Personal Public Service Numbers (12 Nov 2020)

Niall Collins: 270. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a PPS number for a person (details supplied) will issue; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35960/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Personal Public Service Numbers (12 Nov 2020)

Niall Collins: 271. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a PPS number for a person (details supplied) will issue; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35961/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Personal Public Service Numbers (12 Nov 2020)

Niall Collins: 272. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a PPS number for a person (details supplied) will issue; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35962/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Personal Public Service Numbers (12 Nov 2020)

Niall Collins: 273. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a PPS number for a person (details supplied) will issue; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35963/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (12 Nov 2020)

Niall Collins: There are 18,800 apprentices registered across the 58 available apprenticeship programmes as at the end of October 2020. 2,234 (12%) of which are registered to consortia-led programmes. Apprenticeship is funded by the National Training Fund and there is therefore no direct cost to the exchequer. Given the dual nature of apprenticeship within the current system, the July 2019 Spending...

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Drugs Strategy (12 Nov 2020)

Niall Collins: 336. To ask the Minister for Health the details of the €10 million in funding announced in budget 2021 for the national drugs strategy; if the drugs and alcohol task force in Tallaght, Dublin 24, is included in funding for the expanded family support services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35948/20]

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 45 - Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Revised) (12 Nov 2020)

Niall Collins: I thank the Deputy for his question. We are acutely aware of the hit and miss approach to apprenticeships by local authorities. Dublin City Council offers them, but my local authority in the mid-west does not. We think it should be carried out on a uniform basis. I have sent a note to the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage on it. It is under active consideration as part...

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 45 - Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Revised) (12 Nov 2020)

Niall Collins: The Deputy is right. For example, Irish Rail and ESB offers apprenticeships. State entities and State companies in other areas are actively engaged in offering apprenticeships and employing people through apprenticeships. There is no reason not to have a uniform approach through our local authorities.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Nursing Staff (11 Nov 2020)

Niall Collins: I thank both Deputies. I recognise the validity of the case and the argument they are making. There is absolute merit it what they are saying. This is an issue I will flag to the Minister for Health, Deputy Stephen Donnelly, his Department and the HSE. I am also cognisant of the point relating to the IMO has stated on the record in respect of this matter. I note the point made by...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Nursing Staff (11 Nov 2020)

Niall Collins: I thank the Deputies for raising this important issue. I am conscious of the difficulties being experienced by students and their families as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic and the importance of the student grant scheme and related supports such as the student assistance fund and the fund for students with disabilities. These supports have a fundamental role in assisting students and...

Written Answers — Department of Trade, Enterprise and Employment: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (11 Nov 2020)

Niall Collins: 32. To ask the Minister for Trade, Enterprise and Employment the assistance that can be offered to a business (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35466/20]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan (11 Nov 2020)

Niall Collins: 42. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when the national broadband plan will provide a property (details supplied) with service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35659/20]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (11 Nov 2020)

Niall Collins: 67. To ask the Minister for Finance the assistance that can be offered to a business (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35493/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (11 Nov 2020)

Niall Collins: The Industrial Training Act, 1967 sets out a framework for the regulation of some key aspects of apprenticeship. It provides for the designation of an industrial activity as one in which apprenticeship shall apply, the establishment of register of apprentices and the power to make rules governing apprenticeships subject to consultation with the industrial training committee representing...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Value Added Tax (10 Nov 2020)

Niall Collins: 329. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on correspondence from a person (details supplied) in relation to the retail export scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35328/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Education (10 Nov 2020)

Niall Collins: Officials in my Department have contacted Kildare Wicklow Education and Training Board (KWETB) regarding this matter. I understand that KWETB had dealt with the issue and that the person's place on their course has been secured.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (10 Nov 2020)

Niall Collins: The majority of the 18,179 apprentices who were registered with SOLAS prior to the 1stMarch 2020 and who have not yet completed their programme remain registered to their apprenticeship at this time.Government initiatives during the Covid-19 crisis period are targeted towards retaining a relationship between employers and employees (including apprentices), this includes access to the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (10 Nov 2020)

Niall Collins: 681. To ask the Minister for Health the planning to date which may allow an activity (details supplied) in December 2020 to proceed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34677/20]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Town and Village Renewal Scheme (10 Nov 2020)

Niall Collins: 846. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the status of a town and village renewal grant application by an association (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34944/20]