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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: National Training Fund (2 May 2017)

John Halligan: The National Training Fund (NTF) was managed by the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment from its inception in 2000 until 1 May 2010 when the function was transferred to my Department. The tables outline the Training Levy receipts for the period 2000 to 2010 and the breakdown of the funding by programme type for the period 2002 to 2010, a breakdown is...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: SOLAS Funding (2 May 2017)

John Halligan: SOLAS was established in late 2013. The table outlines the programmes for which my Department provided funding to SOLAS and the number of beneficiaries of these programme for the years 2014, 2015 and 2016 as requested.  Beneficiaries are defined as the number of people who were on programmes on 1 January in the year in question plus those who started programmes during...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: SOLAS Training and Education Programmes Places (2 May 2017)

John Halligan: I have provided a table giving the number of participants on training programmes for the unemployed in each of the years 2007 to 2016.  This shows a significant decrease in the number of unemployed people availing of training over the last number of years due to the upturn in the economy. In line with this there has been a rebalancing of the funding allocated for training with more...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (2 May 2017)

John Halligan: Based on the targets set out in the Action Plan to Expand Apprenticeship and Traineeship 2016-2020, it is estimated that the cost of apprenticeship and traineeship provision in 2020 will rise to approximately €260m.  The estimated average cost to the state of training an apprentice is approximately €6,500 per annum.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Community Employment Schemes Supervisors (2 May 2017)

John Halligan: On 21 March 2002, the Labour Court recommended that LTI Community Training Supervisors should receive an increase in pay and that the total grant paid by FÁS to project sponsors for supervisor pay should be increased by 20%.  Sponsors were to be advised that the total increased grant, less employers PRSI, should be paid to supervisors.  This was implemented by FÁS.  ...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: SOLAS Training and Education Programmes Data (2 May 2017)

John Halligan: The tables sets out the list of local training initiatives (LTIs) extracted by SOLAS from the 2016 Funding Allocations Requests and Reporting database system.  These are the reported LTIs from ETBs in operation during 2016. FET - LTI Provision - 2016 Local Training Initiatives Cavan Centre LTI Cavan Geneology LTI Cavan Training Clones Peacelink LTI ...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Community Training Centres (2 May 2017)

John Halligan: On 21 March 2002, the Labour Court recommended that LTI Community Training Supervisors should receive an increase in pay and that the total grant paid by FÁS to project sponsors for supervisor pay should be increased by 20%.  Sponsors were to be advised that the total increased grant, less employers PRSI, should be paid to supervisors.  This was implemented by FÁS. The...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Eligibility (2 May 2017)

John Halligan: School transport is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department. Currently almost 116,000 children, including some 12,000 children with special educational needs, are being 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: School Transport Provision (2 May 2017)

John Halligan: School transport is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department. Currently almost 116,000 children, including some 12,000 children with special educational needs, are being 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. In general,...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (2 May 2017)

John Halligan: I understand, the proposed HGV Driver Apprenticeship, being developed jointly by the Irish Road Haulage Association and Cavan Monaghan ETB, is at an advanced stage of development.  Cavan Monaghan ETB, on behalf of the consortia, expects to submit the programme to Quality Qualifications Ireland (QQI) for validation by end of May 2017.   Subject to successful validation of the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Eligibility (2 May 2017)

John Halligan: School transport is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department. Currently almost 116,000 children, including some 12,000 children with special educational needs, are being 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 Programmes (2 May 2017)

John Halligan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 397 and 398 together. The material sought by the Deputy is set out in the table. During 2016, 2 new apprenticeship programmes got underway with the Insurance Practitioner Apprenticeship commencing in September and the Industrial Electrical Engineer Apprenticeship in November. Following successful validation of their programmes, 3 additional apprenticeships...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (2 May 2017)

John Halligan: There were 3,742 new registrations on the 27 existing craft apprenticeships in 2016. During 2016 two new apprenticeship programmes commenced, the Insurance Practitioner in September with 67 registered apprentices and the Industrial Electrical Engineering in November with 12 registered apprentices. The following table sets out target annual registrations for...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (2 May 2017)

John Halligan: Information events hosted by SOLAS were held for category 2 and 3 proposers in November 2016. The Apprenticeship Council has been working with consortia to develop these proposals into sustainable apprenticeships that can be delivered on a nationwide basis. Details of those proposals approved for development funding by the Apprenticeship Council is set out in the following table....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Data (2 May 2017)

John Halligan: The information sought by the Deputy in respect of programmes approved to date for funding is set out in the following table. It should be noted that capital and operational costs are only available for those new apprenticeships that have completed development and validation. Costs for further programmes will be determined as they move through development and validation and as new...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Data (2 May 2017)

John Halligan: I propose to answer Questions Nos. 402 and 404 together. Some activities that relate to the Youth Guarantee are supported through Youth Employment Initiative (YEI) funding. This funding is fully committed in Ireland to a range of programmes. Apprenticeship is not supported through the YEI. A total of €69.6 million was spent on apprenticeship training in 2016,...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Youth Guarantee (2 May 2017)

John Halligan: The Youth Employment Initiative (YEI) is one of the main EU financial resources to support the implementation of the EU youth guarantee. It 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) that was adopted by Commission Decision in February 2015. The...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: National Training Fund (13 Apr 2017)

John Halligan: I thank the Senator for raising these important questions and for agreeing to postpone this matter from last week for me. The National Training Fund, NTF, is resourced by a levy on employers of 0.7% of reckonable earnings in respect of employees in classes A and H employments, which represents approximately 75% of all insured employees. The levy is collected through the pay as you earn,...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: National Training Fund (13 Apr 2017)

John Halligan: From what I can gather, it balances with the Exchequer all the time. Whenever funding is spent on something, if one overspends or underspends one is required to deal with the Exchequer. I will find out what the position is. I have contacted the Department of Finance to ask for a detailed analysis as to why that is the case and I will forward that to the Senator.

Seanad: Commencement Matters: National Training Fund (13 Apr 2017)

John Halligan: How best to allocate the money, be it to higher education and so forth, will be part of the consultation process. I know the Senator has a great interest in this so I would value her contribution to the consultation process in respect of how she believes it should be spent. After the consultation process this will come back to the Houses for discussion. I urge the Senator to let the...