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Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Departmental Funding (30 Jan 2018)

John Halligan: I-LOFAR is the national LOFAR astronomy consortium in Ireland (I-LOFAR Consortium). The Low Frequency Array Telescope (LOFAR) is a collection of radio antennas distributed across Europe controlled by super-computing facilities in the Netherlands in such a way that the entire network acts as a single instrument. LOFAR is a radio telescope working at the lowest frequencies accessible from...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Eligibility (24 Jan 2018)

John Halligan: School transport is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department. Currently over 115,000 children, including almost 12,000 children with special educational needs, are being transported in over 4,500 vehicles on a daily basis to primary and post-primary schools throughout the country covering over 100 million kilometres annually. The child in...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Applications (23 Jan 2018)

John Halligan: School transport is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department. Currently over 115,000 children, including almost 12,000 children with special educational needs, are being transported in over 4,500 vehicles on a daily basis to primary and post-primary schools throughout the country covering over 100 million kilometres annually. Under the terms of my...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (23 Jan 2018)

John Halligan: As the deputy is aware, the Apprenticeship Council is currently overseeing the expansion of the apprenticeship system in Ireland into a range of new sectors of the economy. The Council has now made two calls for apprenticeship proposals inviting consortia of enterprise, professional bodies and education and training providers to submit proposals for apprenticeship programmes to be...

Report of the Joint Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Statements (Resumed) (18 Jan 2018)

John Halligan: Will the Members opposite show some respect to the next speaker?

Report of the Joint Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Statements (Resumed) (18 Jan 2018)

John Halligan: This is ridiculous.

Report of the Joint Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Statements (Resumed) (18 Jan 2018)

John Halligan: Although this is a highly emotive issue and emotions will run high inside and outside this Dáil, it has nothing to do with morals. It is an issue of human rights — women's sexual reproductive rights. This debate over the next couple of days or weeks needs to be evidence-based, but women's health must be made a priority. An average of ten women travel to the United Kingdom per...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Eligibility (18 Jan 2018)

John Halligan: School transport is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department. Currently over 115,000 children, including almost 12,000 children with special educational needs, are being transported in over 4,500 vehicles on a daily basis to primary and post-primary schools throughout the country covering over 100 million kilometres annually. The purpose of my...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Applications (18 Jan 2018)

John Halligan: School transport is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department. Currently over 115,000 children, including almost 12,000 children with special educational needs, are being transported in over 4,500 vehicles on a daily basis to primary and post-primary schools throughout the country covering over 100 million kilometres annually. Under the terms of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Data (18 Jan 2018)

John Halligan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 114 and 117 to 119, inclusive, together. The information requested by the Deputy is set out in the tables. - National Training Fund (NTF) allocation (€m) NTF expenditure Total (€m) Exchequer allocation (€m) Exchequer expenditure Total (€m)* 2015 49.6 42.6 12.5 12.8 2016 60.1 55.1 14.6 14.5 2017 80.4 69.9 19.1...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Traineeship Programmes Data (18 Jan 2018)

John Halligan: I propose to answer Questions Nos. 115 and 116 together. The information requested by the Deputy is set out in the attached tabular statements. I am informed by SOLAS that they are not in a position to provide a gender breakdown of the traineeship enrolments at the end of 2017 at present. However, with the introduction of the Programme Learner Support System (PLSS), which is now being...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Data (18 Jan 2018)

John Halligan: I propose to answer Questions Nos. 120 and 121 together. The Apprenticeship Council has completed its assessment of the proposals received in the second call for apprenticeship proposals. Resulting from this, I recently announced 26 new programmes that have been approved for further development into national apprenticeships. These programmes span a wide range of skills and sectors including...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (17 Jan 2018)

John Halligan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 72 to 75, inclusive, together. We have launched plans to significantly increase the number of apprenticeships by expanding the apprenticeship model into new sectors of the economy with an overall target to more than double the number of apprenticeships available by 2020. Some 4,843 new apprentices registered on an apprenticeship programme during 2017,...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Eligibility (16 Jan 2018)

John Halligan: School transport is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department. Currently over 115,000 children, including almost 12,000 children with special educational needs, are being transported in over 4,500 vehicles on a daily basis to primary and post-primary schools throughout the country covering over 100 million kilometres annually. Under the terms of my...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Data (16 Jan 2018)

John Halligan: It is estimated that the cost of training an apprentice in one of the existing craft apprenticeships is approximately €6,700 per annum therefore, given that these apprenticeships are 4 years in duration, the average cost of a craft apprenticeship is approximately €26,800.  The estimated cost of training an apprentice in one of the new consortia led apprenticeships is...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (16 Jan 2018)

John Halligan: As the Deputy is aware, the Apprenticeship Council is currently overseeing the expansion of the apprenticeship system in Ireland into a range of new sectors of the economy.  Last year, a second call for apprenticeship proposals invited consortia of enterprise, professional bodies and education and training providers to submit proposals for apprenticeship programmes to be developed...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Momentum Programme (16 Jan 2018)

John Halligan: The Momentum programme was created in 2012 during the economic downturn to address the needs of long term unemployed and young unemployed individuals. It funded the provision of free education and training projects to support over 12,500 jobseekers (who had been unemployed for twelve months or more) to gain skills and access employment opportunities in growing sectors of the economy. It...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Data (16 Jan 2018)

John Halligan: At the end of 2017 there was a total of 151 female apprentices registered on the 34 apprenticeship schemes currently on offer, which represents an increase of over 150% on the 2016 figure of 60. The 2014 Review of Apprenticeship in Ireland acknowledged that the number of women employed in craft apprenticeships is low as they operate in sectors that have traditionally low levels of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Applications (16 Jan 2018)

John Halligan: School transport is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department. Currently over 115,000 children, including almost 12,000 children with special educational needs, are being transported in over 4,500 vehicles on a daily basis to primary and post-primary schools throughout the country covering over 100 million kilometres annually. Under the terms of my...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Applications (16 Jan 2018)

John Halligan: School transport is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department. Currently over 115,000 children, including almost 12,000 children with special educational needs, are being transported in over 4,500 vehicles on a daily basis to primary and post-primary schools throughout the country covering over 100 million kilometres annually. Under the terms of the Post...