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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Provision (5 Dec 2017)

John Halligan: School transport is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department. Currently over 114,000 children, including over 11,000 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 km annually. Bus Éireann has advised that...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Eligibility (5 Dec 2017)

John Halligan: School transport is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department. Currently over 114,000 children, including over 11,000 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 the scheme for...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Eligibility (5 Dec 2017)

John Halligan: School transport is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department. Currently over 114,000 children, including some 11,000 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 (5 Dec 2017)

John Halligan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 211 to 214, inclusive, together. The 2018 budget allocation for apprenticeship training is €122m which represents an increase of almost 24% on the 2017 allocation of €98.7m. Future years allocations will be determined through the normal budgetary process which takes account of competing demands and the overall availability of resources. As the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: SOLAS Expenditure (5 Dec 2017)

John Halligan: The Department provides funding from the Exchequer and the National Training Fund to SOLAS, the further education and training authority, for the provision of further education and training services. I can inform the Deputy that the budget allocation for expenditure on further education in each of the years 2013 to 2018 is outlined below: 2011 – 2016 Actual Year...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (30 Nov 2017)

John Halligan: School transport is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department. Currently over 114,000 children, including over 11,000 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 Eligibility (30 Nov 2017)

John Halligan: School transport is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department. Currently over 114,000 children, including over 11,000 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. Additional information...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Momentum Programme (29 Nov 2017)

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 (29 Nov 2017)

John Halligan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 137 and 138 together. The 2018 budget allocation for apprenticeship training is €122m which represents an increase of almost 24% on the 2017 allocation of €98.7m. The 2018 allocation will support an apprenticeship population in the region of 13,000 by the end of 2017 and the new registrations which are targeted, under the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Momentum Programme (29 Nov 2017)

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 was...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (29 Nov 2017)

John Halligan: School transport is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department. Currently over 114,000 children, including over 11,000 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 changes...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Appeals (28 Nov 2017)

John Halligan: School transport is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department. Currently over 114,000 children, including over 11,000 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 (28 Nov 2017)

John Halligan: A key commitment for this year set out in our Action Plan to Expand Apprenticeship and Traineeship 2016-2020 was the issuing of a second call for apprenticeship proposals to refresh the pipeline of proposals already established through the first call. The second call closed on the 1stSeptember with 77 proposals received from a range of sectors and occupations.  Since the call closed,...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Youthreach Programme (28 Nov 2017)

John Halligan: Following the sale of the former St. John of God School in Kilmore Road, Artane, the Youthreach project was temporarily moved by City of Dublin Education and Training Board (CDETB) to premises in Whitehall, while efforts were made to identify suitable alternative accommodation in the Coolock area. Earlier this month, Youthreach staff and students moved from the Whitehall premises to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Youthreach Programme (28 Nov 2017)

John Halligan: Following the sale of the former St. John of God School in Kilmore Road, Artane, the Youthreach project was temporarily moved by City of Dublin Education and Training Board (CDETB) to premises in Whitehall, while efforts were made to identify suitable alternative accommodation in the Coolock area. Earlier this month, Youthreach staff and students moved from the Whitehall premises to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Provision (28 Nov 2017)

John Halligan: Galway Roscommon Education & Training Board have confirmed that their training centre in Mervue, Galway, is currently developing an extra workshop for electrical apprentices. This is in response to the growing demand nationally for electrical apprentices. Following a procurement process, it is envisaged that this work will begin in the next two weeks and should be completed in...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Review (23 Nov 2017)

John Halligan: School transport is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department. Currently over 114,000 children, including over 11,000 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 the School...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Eligibility (23 Nov 2017)

John Halligan: School transport is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department. Currently over 114,000 children, including over 11,000 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. In general, children with...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Data (23 Nov 2017)

John Halligan: Current funding for apprenticeship training is provided from both Exchequer and National Training Fund (NTF). The NTF is resourced by the NTF levy, currently set at 0.7% of reckonable earnings and rising to 0.8% in 2018. The allocations are based on costings received during the budgetary process, from both SOLAS and the Higher Education Authority (HEA), to meet cost of apprenticeship...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further Education and Training Colleges (21 Nov 2017)

John Halligan: Further Education and Training (FET) provides learners with key intermediate level skills, enhancing the productivity and adaptability of the Irish workforce.  It is delivered in a range of settings throughout the country, with FET providers firmly embedded in local communities.  A priority for my Department, is to improve the quality of the settings in which FET is delivered, in...