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Written Answers — Post-Leaving Certificate Courses: Post-Leaving Certificate Courses (27 May 2009)

Seán Haughey: From September 2009, an additional 1,500 PLC places will be made available nationwide bringing the total number of PLC places to 31,688. On 22 May, these additional places were allocated to VECs and other providers. County Wicklow VEC, which has responsibility for the college referred to by the Deputy, was allocated an additional 30 PLC places, bringing their total allocation to 980 PLC...

Written Answers — Departmental Funding: Departmental Funding (27 May 2009)

Seán Haughey: My Department has provided funding since 2000 to the project referred to by the Deputy towards programme costs, under the Fund for the Development of Targeted Educational Responses to Certain Children at Risk. This project has also been supported by my Department through an annual allocation of 968 teaching hours under the Co-Operation with Other Institutions Scheme since 2001. This project...

Written Answers — National Education Welfare Board: National Education Welfare Board (26 May 2009)

Seán Haughey: The National Educational Welfare Board (NEWB), which was established under the Educational Welfare act 2000, is just one aspect of the comprehensive framework that this Government has put in place to improve school attendance, to encourage more young people to finish school and to support parents and the wider community in addressing the individual needs of children at risk of educational...

Written Answers — Further Education: Further Education (26 May 2009)

Seán Haughey: The information requested by the Deputy is set out in the table. For full-time programmes, the number of approved places is supplied. For part-time programmes, the number of participants is supplied. This information is collected at the end of the year so the 2009 information will not be available until early 2010. Full Time Approved Places 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 Type of Centre PLC...

Written Answers — Vocational Training Opportunities Scheme: Vocational Training Opportunities Scheme (26 May 2009)

Seán Haughey: VTOS students are paid a training allowance in lieu of their previous qualifying social welfare payment, at a rate equivalent to the maximum rate of jobseekers benefit. Students retain their social welfare secondary benefits and may also receive a payment for an adult or child dependant if appropriate. Social welfare rates are determined in the annual Government Budget. VTOS students in...

Written Answers — Educational Disadvantage: Educational Disadvantage (26 May 2009)

Seán Haughey: DEIS (Delivering Equality of Opportunity in Schools), the action plan for educational inclusion, provides for a standardised system for identifying levels of disadvantage and an integrated School Support Programme (SSP). DEIS brings together and builds upon a number of existing interventions in schools with concentrated levels of disadvantage. The process of identifying schools for...

Written Answers — School Transport: School Transport (26 May 2009)

Seán Haughey: The school transport scheme, which is operated by Bus Éireann on my Department's behalf, facilitates the transportation of over 135,000 children to primary and post-primary schools each day. School transport is a very significant operation involving about 42 million journeys and over 82 million kilometres on 6,000 routes every school year. The cost of school transport in 2009 is now...

Written Answers — Education Welfare Service: Education Welfare Service (21 May 2009)

Seán Haughey: The Education (Welfare) Act, 2000 established the National Educational Welfare Board (NEWB) as the statutory body with responsibility for school attendance. The general functions of the Board are to ensure that each child attends a recognised school or otherwise receives a certain minimum education. I am informed by the Board that on 31st December 2008 there were 104 staff employed....

Written Answers — Asylum Support Services: Asylum Support Services (21 May 2009)

Seán Haughey: Non-Irish nationals in the following categories are entitled to free access to some Further Education courses on the same basis as Irish nationals: *EU nationals; *persons who have refugee status in Ireland; *persons in the State as the spouse of an EU national, where the EU national has moved from one country to another within the EU to work; *persons (including their spouse and children)...

Written Answers — School Transport: School Transport (20 May 2009)

Seán Haughey: My Department received a list of names and addresses of pupils wishing to avail of a transport service to the school referred to by the Deputy, in the details supplied. These names have been forwarded to Bus Éireann to determine (a) the pupils eligibility for transport and (b) whether a service may be established within the terms of the school transport scheme. My Department has asked Bus...

Written Answers — School Transport: School Transport (19 May 2009)

Seán Haughey: The annual charges for school transport services are being increased from the first term of the 2009/10 school year as follows: Eligible post-primary pupils (junior) from €168 to €300 (78% increase)Eligible post-primary pupils (senior) from €234 to €300 (28% increase)Concessionary post-primary pupils from €234 to €300 (28% increase)Concessionary primary pupils from €120 to...

Written Answers — School Transport: School Transport (19 May 2009)

Seán Haughey: Under the terms of my Department's Post Primary School Transport Scheme, a pupil is eligible for transport if s/he resides 4.8 kilometres or more from her/his local post primary education centre. The scheme is not designed to facilitate parents who choose to send their children to a post-primary centre outside of the catchment area in which they reside. However, children who are fully...

Written Answers — Early School Leavers: Early School Leavers (19 May 2009)

Seán Haughey: There are currently almost 6,000 places available nationally under the Youthreach umbrella. Almost 3,700 of these are funded by my Department and delivered in just over 100 centres by Vocational Education Committees (VECs). The majority of the remaining 2,300 places are funded by the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment and delivered by FÁS in Community Training Centres (CTCs)....

Written Answers — Early School Leavers: Early School Leavers (19 May 2009)

Seán Haughey: The data sought by the Deputy will be forwarded directly to him shortly. My Department has adopted a broad-based approach to tackling early school leaving. This includes the establishment of the National Educational Welfare Board, under the Education Welfare Act, 2000, to monitor attendance and help to get young people back to school. Targeted interventions include the School Completion...

Written Answers — School Transport: School Transport (19 May 2009)

Seán Haughey: Under the terms of the Primary School Transport Scheme, only eligible children qualify for free transport. In order to be eligible, children must live at least 3.2 kilometres from, and be attending, their nearest national school. Bus Éireann, which operates the school transport scheme on behalf of my Department, has advised that the family referred to by the Deputy in the details supplied...

Written Answers — Adult Education: Adult Education (19 May 2009)

Seán Haughey: My Department provides funds to Vocational Education Committees (VECs) nationwide to deliver a wide range of adult and further education programmes such as Post Leaving Certificate (PLC), Vocational Training Opportunity Scheme (VTOS), Youthreach, Adult Literacy, Back to Education Initiative (BTEI) and Community Education. Eligibility to participate in some programmes is subject to certain...

Written Answers — School Transport: School Transport (19 May 2009)

Seán Haughey: My Department has been informed by Bus Éireann that a transport service for the pupil referred to by the Deputy, in the details supplied, has now resumed.

Private Security Authority. (14 May 2009)

Seán Haughey: On behalf of the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform, I welcome the opportunity to set out some details of the work of the PSA. Established under the Private Security Services Act 2004, it is the regulatory body with responsibility for regulating and licensing the private security industry. The authority is an independent body. Although it operates under the aegis of the...

Private Security Authority. (14 May 2009)

Seán Haughey: That is the de facto position. This means that in excess of 33,000 people working in the security industry in Ireland have been vetted by An Garda Síochána on behalf of the authority. In addition, applicants who have resided outside of Ireland for a period of six months or more are required to provide the authority with a criminal record certificate from that jurisdiction. All Garda...

Higher Education Grants. (14 May 2009)

Seán Haughey: I am replying on behalf of my colleague, the Minister for Education and Science, Deputy Batt O'Keeffe. I thank the Deputy for giving me the opportunity to outline the position of Education and Science on an application by the man in question for funding under the maintenance grant schemes. The Department funds four maintenance grant schemes for third level and further education students....