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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Adult Education Provision (26 Mar 2019)

John Halligan: The latest comparable (EU 28 vs Ireland) data is the annual average for 2018.The data for 2018 is provisional and there is no data available for 2019 at this point. In quarter 3 2017, the CSO introduced a new Labour Force Survey (LFS) which replaced the Quarterly National Household Survey (QNHS). This move involved a number of changes in how the survey is carried out, including, among...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Appeals (26 Mar 2019)

John Halligan: School transport is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department. There are currently over 117,500 children, including over 13,000 children with special educational needs, transported in over 5,000 vehicles on a daily basis to primary and post-primary schools throughout the country covering over 100 million kilometres annually. The child in question...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: SOLAS Training and Education Programmes Certification (26 Mar 2019)

John Halligan: Safe Pass is a one day health and safety awareness programme, which aims to provide those that work in construction environments with a level of basic knowledge and awareness of evolving health and safety standards and practices. The Safe Pass programme is administered by SOLAS and operated by a network of mainly private SOLAS-approved training providers. The Safe Pass Programme is...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards Staff (26 Mar 2019)

John Halligan: Staff delivering the training courses that the deputy refers to are employed under the Local Training Initiative programme (LTI). As previously mentioned, this programme is a project-based training and work experience programme carried out in the local community run by local community groups and associations. Staff delivering courses are typically employed by the relevant community group or...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Data (26 Mar 2019)

John Halligan: School transport is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department. There are currently over 117,500 children, including over 13,000 children with special educational needs, transported in over 5,000 vehicles on a daily basis to primary and post-primary schools throughout the country covering over 100 million km annually. Bus Éireann has advised that in...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Provision (26 Mar 2019)

John Halligan: School transport is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department. There are currently over 117,500 children, including over 13,000 children with special educational needs, transported in over 5,000 vehicles on a daily basis to primary and post-primary schools throughout the country covering over 100 million kilometres annually. The purpose of the scheme is,...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Adult Education Provision (26 Mar 2019)

John Halligan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 406 to 409, inclusive, together. The Adult Educational Guidance Services (AEGS) were established within Vocational Education Committees (VECs) in 2000 with a remit to provide career and educational guidance to participants in further education sector before, during, and after their course. The AEGS are now based in the 16 Education and Training Boards (ETBs)....

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Message to Dáil (13 Mar 2019)

John Halligan: I thank the Vice Chairman and committee members for their efficiency. We may have broken a record today.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Applications (12 Mar 2019)

John Halligan: School transport is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department. There are currently over 117,500 children, including over 13,000 children with special educational needs, transported in over 5,000 vehicles on a daily basis to primary and post-primary schools throughout the country covering over 100 million kilometres annually. The child in question is...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Teacher Training Provision (6 Mar 2019)

John Halligan: On behalf of the Minister for Education and Skills, Deputy McHugh, I thank the Deputy for raising this matter. I recognise the Deputy's advocacy over many years on behalf of those with special needs. Inclusive education is a fundamental principle of our education and training system. This principle is put into practice in the policies of the Department and the Teaching Council. Under...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Teacher Training Provision (6 Mar 2019)

John Halligan: It is not difficult to agree with much of what the Deputy has said. There are three points to make. Inclusive education is a mandatory element of the initial teacher education programme, and research has been carried out on inclusive education in initial teacher education by the NCSE which recently published a report entitled Initial Teacher Education for Inclusion. Phases 1 and 2 of the...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Teacher Training Provision (6 Mar 2019)

John Halligan: All teachers have inclusion training.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Education and Training Boards (6 Mar 2019)

John Halligan: I can state categorically that refugee resettlement programme participants are entitled to 20 hours of provision weekly in the first year of resettlement. ETBs can subsequently offer more than 20 hours per week, but we have found that 20 hours a week is too much for many refugees as they are settling into their homes, have children who are in school and their environment and community are...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Education and Training Boards (6 Mar 2019)

John Halligan: Additional one-to-one tuition is offered and available for learners with very weak language skills and literacy difficulties in their own language who may find it beneficial. I do not have the facts and figures for the take-up, but I can obtain them for the Deputy. The onus is on the ETBs which can offer 20 hours a week, although as I have explained, we find that many refugees and asylum...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Education and Training Boards (6 Mar 2019)

John Halligan: I thank Deputy Pringle for his important question. My Department and SOLAS fund English for speakers of other languages training for migrants through the 16 education and training boards, ETBs. Adult programme refugees have access to an initial eight-week language training and orientation programme in a number of ETBs under the resettlement strand of the Irish refugee protection...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Vocational Training Opportunities Scheme Eligibility (6 Mar 2019)

John Halligan: The Vocational Training Opportunities Scheme (VTOS) was established to provide a range of courses to meet the education and training needs of unemployed people. The scheme allows successful applicants to keep their social welfare allowances while attending their courses. VTOS courses are available to persons over the age of 21, and who are in receipt certain social welfare allowances for a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Administration (6 Mar 2019)

John Halligan: School transport is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department. There are currently over 117,500 children, including over 13,000 children with special educational needs, transported in over 5,000 vehicles on a daily basis to primary and post-primary schools throughout the country covering over 100 million kilometres annually. The type of vehicle...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards Data (6 Mar 2019)

John Halligan: I have been informed by Donegal ETB that no courses were advertised for the Gaoth Dobhair centre which were subsequently delivered at an alternative centre. Donegal ETB also advised that any courses which were advertised and which did not receive sufficient numbers were either postponed or cancelled if a course proved to be  non-viable due to a lack of interest. However,...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Provision (5 Mar 2019)

John Halligan: School transport is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department. There are currently over 117,500 children, including over 13,000 children with special educational needs, transported in over 5,000 vehicles on a daily basis to primary and post-primary schools throughout the country covering over 100 million kilometres annually. The purpose of the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: EU Funding (5 Mar 2019)

John Halligan: The Youth Employment Initiative (YEI) is one of the main EU financial resources to support the implementation of the EU youth guarantee.  The YEI is integrated into European Social Fund (ESF) programming as a dedicated priority axis within the ESF Programme for Employability, Inclusion and Learning 2014-2020 (PEIL).  The specific YEI allocation for Ireland of...