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- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Revised) (2 May 2017) Thomas Byrne: It is the nub of the confusion that has been put out there by the Department.
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Revised) (2 May 2017) Thomas Byrne: They have nothing to do with guidance counselling. Nothing.
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Revised) (2 May 2017) Thomas Byrne: There is obviously a new model for the allocation of special education resources but I will leave my question for now, it fits into another category.
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Revised) (2 May 2017) Thomas Byrne: Depending on what figures one looks at, the numbers are going up. Someone said there are four new routes this year but the number of students has gone down. It is very static. What plans does the Minister of State have for the school transport scheme? Are changes proposed for this year? Will there be more reviews or will it stay the way it is without changes being made to it?
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Revised) (2 May 2017) Thomas Byrne: Will there be changes to those criteria this year?
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Revised) (2 May 2017) Thomas Byrne: This probably really comes in under subhead A10 but the Chairman will probably let me away with it. It is about capitation. The circular on school costs issued by the Minister last week is all bark and no bite. The Minister set down a list of rules for schools to comply with but in respect of the capitation grant, he said that when resources allow, he would put in some penalty or give some...
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Revised) (2 May 2017) Thomas Byrne: The Minister has not yet made any announcements in this area. There are no penalties and incentives applied.
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Revised) (2 May 2017) Thomas Byrne: Schools do not have incentives either.
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Revised) (2 May 2017) Thomas Byrne: The Department has not yet done that.
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Revised) (2 May 2017) Thomas Byrne: When will the Department do so?
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Revised) (2 May 2017) Thomas Byrne: When will that occur?
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Revised) (2 May 2017) Thomas Byrne: One would be forgiven for believing this approach was already in place as the Department has issued a circular and made a public announcement on the issue. It is not in place, however. This is a case of all bark and no bite.
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Revised) (2 May 2017) Thomas Byrne: Will the Minister clarify the issue of branded products in schools? Has the Department banned the use of uniforms where crests are sewn or manufactured into items? Has the Minister instructed schools not to use these types of products?
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Revised) (2 May 2017) Thomas Byrne: This is a very important issue. Schools are waiting to find out if capitation will be increased or decreased and the Minister is not giving anything away on the issue. He has, however, raised expectations among parents that it is being deal when that is clearly not the case.
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Revised) (2 May 2017) Thomas Byrne: The witnesses can appear again tomorrow.
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: National Training Fund (2 May 2017)
Thomas Byrne: 298. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the specific training grants supplied to industry from the national training fund in each of the years 2015 and 2016. [19197/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: National Training Fund (2 May 2017)
Thomas Byrne: 299. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount collected from the national training levy in each of the years 2000 to 2010; and the use of this funding by types of programme. [19198/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: SOLAS Funding (2 May 2017)
Thomas Byrne: 300. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the programmes for which his Department provides funding to SOLAS in each year since its establishment; and the number of participants on each programme in each year. [19199/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Skills Development (2 May 2017)
Thomas Byrne: 301. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on whether there is scope to reduce funding to the Springboard or information and communication technology skills conversion course programmes due to reduced demand from unemployed persons. [19200/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: SOLAS Training and Education Programmes Places (2 May 2017)
Thomas Byrne: 302. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of participants on training programmes for the unemployed run by SOLAS in each of the years from 2007 to 2016; if funding to these programmes will be reduced due to decreasing demand from unemployed persons; and the reason expenditure on these programmes increased in 2016 compared to 2014 and 2015 in view of the general reduction in...