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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: 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...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (2 May 2017)
Thomas Byrne: 303. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the approximate cost of the programme for Government commitment to achieving cumulative apprenticeship registrations and traineeship enrolments of 50,000 in the period 2016 to 2020; and the approximate cost to the State of training an apprentice. [19234/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Funding (2 May 2017)
Thomas Byrne: 304. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the €600 million core funding requirement by 2020 referenced in the Cassells report includes or excludes provision for demographic increases that have already been included in fiscal parameters for 2018 and 2019. [19235/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: DEIS Data (2 May 2017)
Thomas Byrne: 366. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason no education performance or educational outcomes data from individual schools was used in the identification process for DEIS status; and his views on whether this is a significant shortcoming in the methodology used. [20278/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: DEIS Data (2 May 2017)
Thomas Byrne: 368. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason data on junior certificate retention rates by school, junior certificate exam results aggregated to school level and or leaving certificate retention rates by school were not used to identify post-primary schools that had high levels of disadvantage for the DEIS identification process; and the reason he is of the view that it is an...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: DEIS Data (2 May 2017)
Thomas Byrne: 367. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of schools that have requested verification of the data used to identify the levels of concentrated disadvantage in their school for the purposes of identifying their eligibility for support under the DEIS programme; the name of each school that has requested this verification; if his Department is providing this verification to...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: DEIS Data (2 May 2017)
Thomas Byrne: 369. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on whether it is problematic that the DEIS identification process relies on an assumption that there is a strong correlation between the HP Deprivation Index and educational outcomes; the level of research there has been to support this assumption; and the correlation between the index and education outcomes, including education...