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- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Applications (7 Nov 2017)
John Halligan: School transport is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department. During the 2016/17 school year almost 116,000 children, including some 12,000 children with special educational needs, were transported in over 4,000 vehicles on a daily basis to primary and post-primary schools throughout the country covering over 100 million kilometres annually. ...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Applications (7 Nov 2017)
John Halligan: School transport is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department. During the 2016/17 school year almost 116,000 children, including some 12,000 children with special educational needs, were transported in over 4,000 vehicles on a daily basis to primary and post-primary schools throughout the country covering over 100 million kilometres...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Applications (7 Nov 2017)
John Halligan: School transport is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department. During the 2016/17 school year almost 116,000 children, including some 12,000 children with special educational needs, were transported in over 4,000 vehicles on a daily basis to primary and post-primary schools throughout the country covering over 100 million kilometres...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (7 Nov 2017)
John Halligan: School transport is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department. During the 2016/17 school year almost 116,000 children, including some 12,000 children with special educational needs, were transported in over 4,000 vehicles on a daily basis to primary and post-primary schools throughout the country covering over 100 million kilometres annually. Under...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Review (7 Nov 2017)
John Halligan: School transport is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department. During the 2016/17 school year almost 116,000 children, including some 12,000 children with special educational needs, were transported in over 4,000 vehicles on a daily basis to primary and post-primary schools throughout the country covering over 100 million kilometres...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Provision (7 Nov 2017)
John Halligan: School transport is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department. During the 2016/17 school year almost 116,000 children, including some 12,000 children with special educational needs, were transported in over 4,000 vehicles on a daily basis to primary and post-primary schools throughout the country covering over 100 million kilometres annually. ...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Applications (7 Nov 2017)
John Halligan: School transport is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department. During the 2016/17 school year almost 116,000 children, including some 12,000 children with special educational needs, were transported in over 4,000 vehicles on a daily basis to primary and post-primary schools throughout the country covering over 100 million kilometres annually. Under the...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Applications (7 Nov 2017)
John Halligan: School transport is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department. During the 2016/17 school year almost 116,000 children, including some 12,000 children with special educational needs, were transported in over 4,000 vehicles on a daily basis to primary and post-primary schools throughout the country covering over 100 million kilometres...
- Seanad: Commencement Matters: Schools Building Projects Status (26 Oct 2017)
John Halligan: The Minister sends his apologies for not being here this morning. I thank Senators Clifford-Lee and Reilly for raising this matter as it provides me with an opportunity to outline the current position in terms of the accommodation needs of St. Molaga's national school, Balbriggan, County. Dublin. As both Senators will be aware, St. Molaga's is a co-educational national school that caters...
- Seanad: Commencement Matters: Schools Building Projects Status (26 Oct 2017)
John Halligan: The Department is currently preparing a project brief. To be quite frank, I do not know when the brief will be completed but I have been told that it will be put in place by the year's end. I can say that officials from the Department contacted the school's principal during the summer months about the project brief for the school, the school's long-term project and projected staffing...
- Seanad: Commencement Matters: Schools Building Projects Status (26 Oct 2017)
John Halligan: In the context of increasing staffing at the school, the Department has advised the school that it would be open to dealing with any application for immediate needs. It is anticipated that the decisions based on the exercises, that I mentioned earlier, and criteria laid down would be in place by the end of the year. The Department has said that the school is included in its construction...
- Seanad: Commencement Matters: Schools Building Projects Status (26 Oct 2017)
John Halligan: It will be a permanent solution.
- Seanad: Commencement Matters: Schools Building Projects Status (26 Oct 2017)
John Halligan: Absolutely, yes.
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Data (26 Oct 2017)
John Halligan: The information sought by the Deputy is set out in the following table. We are now seeing strong growth in registrations in construction apprenticeships with 2017 registrations likely to be close to 3,000. This is against a backdrop of a near total collapse in construction apprenticeship registrations during the crisis. Registrations fell from 5,208 in 2007 to only 650 in 2010. The current...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Eligibility (26 Oct 2017)
John Halligan: School transport is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department. During the 2016/17 school year almost 116,000 children, including some 12,000 children with special educational needs, were transported in over 4,000 vehicles on a daily basis to primary and post-primary schools throughout the country covering over 100 million kilometres annually. Under the...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Administration (26 Oct 2017)
John Halligan: School transport is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department. During the 2016/17 school year almost 116,000 children, including some 12,000 children with special educational needs, were transported in over 4,000 vehicles on a daily basis to primary and post-primary schools throughout the country covering over 100 million kilometres annually. The purpose...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (25 Oct 2017)
John Halligan: The information sought be the Deputy in relation to the number of people who have completed their apprenticeship programme is set out in the attached table. It should be noted that craft apprenticeships are four years in duration. Therefore, the number of completers set out in the attached table reflect apprentices that commenced their programme four years earlier, at a time when...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Provision (25 Oct 2017)
John Halligan: School transport is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department. During the 2016/17 school year almost 116,000 children, including some 12,000 children with special educational needs, were transported in over 4,000 vehicles on a daily basis to primary and post-primary schools throughout the country covering over 100 million kilometres annually. The...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Applications Data (25 Oct 2017)
John Halligan: School transport is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department. During the 2016/17 school year almost 116,000 children, including some 12,000 children with special educational needs, were transported in over 4,000 vehicles on a daily basis to primary and post-primary schools throughout the country covering over 100 million kilometres annually....
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Data (25 Oct 2017)
John Halligan: There is no budget cut in funding for apprenticeships. Budget 2018 provides €122 million for apprenticeship training in 2018, compared to €98 million in 2017, a 24% increase. In answer to Parliamentary Question 266 of the 23rd May 2017 it was estimated that a budgetary provision of €135.3m was required for apprenticeship training in 2018. This estimate was based on...