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Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (13 Jan 2021)

Leo Varadkar: ...with the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine as well as the Economic Migration Interdepartmental Group, chaired by this Department. These reviews take account of research undertaken by the Skills and Labour Market Research Unit (SOLAS) and the Expert Group of Future Skills Needs (EGFSN) and of other issues such as Brexit and Covid 19.

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Industrial Relations (17 Dec 2020)

Leo Varadkar: ...;s report, the Government is willing to allocate a fund of €3 million to support career guidance, training, education and business start-ups for the former Debenham workers. This special Fund will be administered by SOLAS on behalf of the Government. Responsibility for employment rights, redundancy and insolvency recently transferred to my Department from the Department of Social...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Industrial Relations (17 Dec 2020)

Leo Varadkar: ..., the Government is willing to allocate a fund of €3 million to support career guidance, training, education and business start-ups for the former Debenham workers. This special Fund will be administered by SOLAS on behalf of the Government. Detailed criteria for draw-down from the Fund will be developed over the coming days in consultation with their trade union representatives.

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Company Law (17 Dec 2020)

Leo Varadkar: ..., the Government is willing to allocate a fund of €3 million to support career guidance, training, education and business start-ups for the former Debenham workers. This special Fund will be administered by SOLAS on behalf of the Government. Detailed criteria for draw-down from the Fund will be developed over the coming days in consultation with their trade union representatives.

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Company Liquidations (17 Dec 2020)

Leo Varadkar: ...’s report, the Government is willing to allocate a fund of €3 million to support career guidance, training, education and business start-ups for the former Debenham workers. This special Fund will be administered by SOLAS on behalf of the Government. Responsibility for employment rights, redundancy and insolvency recently transferred to my Department from the Department of...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: National Training Fund (17 Dec 2020)

Leo Varadkar: ..., which are funded through the National Training Fund. These include Skillnet Ireland, the Higher Education Authority’s Springboard+ programme, apprenticeships and digital upskilling programmes such as SOLAS’s Skills to Advance and Skills to Compete. The National Training Fund is also supporting an annual €60 million investment in the Higher Education system, through...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Economic Competitiveness (17 Dec 2020)

Leo Varadkar: ...and Budget 2021 provided additional funding for upskilling initiatives and life-long learning programmes that will help workers prepare for job opportunities in a more digital and sustainable future economy. SOLAS has been tasked with the development of a new 10-year strategy for adult literacy, numeracy and digital literacy. The strategy will take a whole-of government approach and...

Written Answers — Department of Trade, Enterprise and Employment: IDA Ireland (15 Dec 2020)

Leo Varadkar: ...talent pool. IDA Ireland also collaborates with the Midlands Regional Skills Manager, Education and Training Boards (ETB’s), Athlone Institute of Technology, Carlow Institute of Technology, Solas, Irish Manufacturing Research (IMR), amongst other entities, to ensure that the appropriate courses are always available to staff in the region looking to re-train and/or up-skill. ...

Written Answers — Department of Trade, Enterprise and Employment: SOLAS Training and Education Programmes (5 Nov 2020)

Leo Varadkar: I propose to take Questions Nos. 60 and 61 together. Under the Safety, Health and Welfare at Work Construction Regulations 2013 certain categories of construction workers must hold a SOLAS Safe Pass card. With the imposition of public health restrictions last March, SOLAS, through its parent Department, requested an amendment to these Regulations to extend the four-year validity period of...

Written Answers — Department of Trade, Enterprise and Employment: Apprenticeship Programmes (20 Oct 2020)

Leo Varadkar: ...3,000 to employers for each new apprentice registered between the 1st March and 31st December of this year, and it has been extended under the recent Budget into 2021. Further details are available from SOLAS or through www.apprenticehsip.ie. I would encourage the Deputy to contact the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science and the Apprenticeship...

Written Answers — Department of Trade, Enterprise and Employment: Work Permits (8 Oct 2020)

Leo Varadkar: ...are subject to twice-yearly review which is predicated on a formalised and evidence-based process and involves consideration of the research undertaken by the Skills and Labour Market Research Unit (Solas), the Expert Group of Future Skills Needs (EGFSN), the National Skills Council, and input by relevant Government Departments in addition to the public consultation phase. Account is also...

Written Answers — Department of Trade, Enterprise and Employment: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (29 Sep 2020)

Leo Varadkar: ...,500 additional places for short-term skills training and 35,000 additional places in further and higher education (Skillnet Ireland, Springboard+, Human Capital Initiative) including 19,000 on the new SOLAS Skills to Compete programme which will support people in developing and attaining qualifications for emerging growth sectors and occupations. A temporary Apprenticeship...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Covid-19 Pandemic (28 Jul 2020)

Leo Varadkar: ...to twice yearly evidenced based reviews.  These reviews are guided by research undertaken by the Expert Group on Future Skills Needs (EGFSN) and the Skills and Labour Market Research Unit (SLMRU) in SOLAS, a public consultation process, input from the relevant Government Departments and the Economic Migration Inter-Departmental Group, chaired by the Department. Account is also taken...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Covid-19 Pandemic (28 Jul 2020)

Leo Varadkar: ...lists are subject to twice-yearly review which is predicated on a formalised and evidence-based process and involves consideration of the research undertaken by the Skills and Labour Market Research Unit (Solas), the Expert Group of Future Skills Needs (EGFSN), the National Skills Council, and input by relevant Government Departments in addition to the public consultation phase. ...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Departmental Strategies (14 Jul 2020)

Leo Varadkar: ...in Enterprise Centres, Incubator Hubs and shared office space. IDA Ireland are also aware of the potential business benefits of remote working. In collaboration with Laois Offaly Education and Training Board (ETB), SOLAS and Grow Remote, the IDA have recently launched two new online national training programmes in response to COVID-19. These courses aim to develop the capability and...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Departmental Functions (14 Jul 2020)

Leo Varadkar: ...in Enterprise Centres, Incubator Hubs and shared office space. IDA Ireland are also aware of the potential business benefits of remote working. In collaboration with Laois Offaly Education and Training Board (ETB), SOLAS and Grow Remote, the IDA have recently launched two new online national training programmes in response to COVID-19. These courses aim to develop the capability and...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Question Heading for question(s) 111 (1 Jun 2017)

Leo Varadkar: ...funding requests for appropriate training for jobseekers engaged with the service where a need is identified that is not otherwise provided by the company directly or state providers (such as Solas/ETBs), within a reasonable length of time or at a location convenient to the jobseeker. The intervention identified is linked to both the activation needs of the jobseeker and labour market...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes Administration (9 May 2017)

Leo Varadkar: ...delivery and developing systems to support its functions. Responsibility for Community Employment (CE) transferred from FÁS to my Department in January 2012 and continued to be delivered on a SOLAS IT platform. The CE programme is now being integrated onto my Department’s IT infrastructure. This will have a positive impact for CE sponsors as it will ease the administrative...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Youth Guarantee (11 Apr 2017)

Leo Varadkar: ...funding as required, in accordance with the EU Regulatory provisions. The PMC has agreed in principle to the inclusion of Community Training Centres, which are funded by the Education and Training Boards in consultation with SOLAS, as an approved activity under the YEI with effect from 1 January 2017. I am informed that while no claim for funding has been made to date, the...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Momentum Programme (11 Apr 2017)

Leo Varadkar: The Momentum Programme is under the remit of the Department of Education and Skills (DES) and is managed on behalf of DES by SOLAS. The programmes include on-the job training in the form of work experience modules as well as the provision of accredited further education and training required to obtain and retain employment. The programme is currently not recruiting new participants....