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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Eligibility (30 Apr 2014)

Ciarán Cannon: Under the terms of my Department's School Transport Scheme for Children with Special Educational Needs, children are eligible for transport where they are attending the nearest recognised school that is or can be resourced to meet their special educational needs. The school this child proposes to attend in September is not her nearest school and therefore she is not eligible for school...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Employment Support Services (30 Apr 2014)

Ciarán Cannon: A dedicated programme of guidance, training, education and enterprises supports, co-funded by the EU under the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund (EGF) for workers made redundant at the S R Technics aircraft maintenance facility in Dublin in 2009 was implemented between 25 March 2009 and 11 October 2011. Under the EGF programme, a total of 769 redundant workers and apprentices benefited...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Post-Leaving Certificate Courses (30 Apr 2014)

Ciarán Cannon: Budget 2011 provided for the introduction of a €200 annual Post Leaving Certificate (PLC) programme participant contribution. This was introduced at the start of the 2011/2012 academic year and the same charge has applied each year since then. Full medical card holders (in their own right and their dependent children), those eligible under the student grant scheme and those in...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Provision (30 Apr 2014)

Ciarán Cannon: Bus Éireann, which operates the School Transport Scheme on behalf of my Department, has advised that arrangements to have replacement services in place for the resumption of school transport after the Easter school holidays on Monday 28th April 2014 were successfully implemented.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Provision (17 Apr 2014)

Ciarán Cannon: I have requested Bus Éireann, which operates the School Transport Scheme on behalf of my Department, to reply directly to the Deputy with the information requested.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Vocational Training Opportunities Scheme Expenditure (17 Apr 2014)

Ciarán Cannon: There are currently 5,000 approved VTOS places available nationwide. VTOS places are allocated to Education and Training Boards (ETBs) on an annual basis and it is a matter for ETBs to allocate those places to their colleges and institutions. Dublin Dun Laoghaire ETB has 510 approved VTOS places. Following the amalgamation of the former Dublin and Dun Laoghaire Vocational Educational...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Social Welfare Benefits (16 Apr 2014)

Ciarán Cannon: The payment of an additional training allowance of €31.80 per week for the long term unemployed was introduced during a period of high employment levels as an incentive for the long term unemployed to participate in FÁS (now SOLAS) training courses. The payment of this allowance was later extended to those persons in receipt of social welfare disability payments to introduce...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Eligibility (16 Apr 2014)

Ciarán Cannon: The purpose of my Department's School Transport Scheme is, having regard to available resources, to support the transport to and from school of children who reside remote from their nearest school. Children are eligible for transport where they reside not less than 3.2 kilometres from, and are attending, their nearest Gaelscoil. In general, transport services are not established in areas...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Provision (16 Apr 2014)

Ciarán Cannon: The purpose of my Department's School Transport Scheme is, having regard to available resources, to support the transport to and from school of children who reside remote from their nearest school. Children are eligible for transport where they reside not less than 3.2 kilometres from, and are attending, their nearest Gaelscoil. In general, transport services are not established in areas...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Provision (15 Apr 2014)

Ciarán Cannon: There was no decision or agreement in relation to a return to risk element as a basis for the payment to Bus Éireann for school transport services.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Availability (15 Apr 2014)

Ciarán Cannon: The Deputy will be aware that children who are eligible for school transport but for whom no service is available may, following an application process for transport within the prescribed time limits, receive a Remote Area Grant towards the cost of private transport arrangements. Grants are only considered for the school year for which an application for school transport is received. In...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Youthreach Programme Issues (15 Apr 2014)

Ciarán Cannon: There are almost 6,000 Youthreach places available nationwide funded by my Department through SOLAS. The number of places has remained at its current level since 2007. Almost 3,700 of these places are provided in just over 100 Youthreach centres operated by Education and Training Boards (ETBs). The remainder are provided in some 30 Community Training Centres that are currently being...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Administration (10 Apr 2014)

Ciarán Cannon: I propose to take Questions Nos. 54 and 55 together. The report did not recommend that the Department negotiate a reduction in Bus Éireann charges. The arrangements for the payments to Bus Éireann in respect of school transport services are set out in the 1975 Summary of Accounting Arrangements. There are two elements to these arrangements: Direct costs are paid as incurred by...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Administration (10 Apr 2014)

Ciarán Cannon: I am not aware of the answer referred to by the Deputy. My Department will fully consider any request for information from the EU Commission upon receipt of a request.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Administration (10 Apr 2014)

Ciarán Cannon: The European Commission commenced an investigation with regard to State aid to Bus Éireann and Dublin Bus in 2007. The State's response was coordinated by the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport and my Department supplied any information to that Department as required by the Commission. Neither the FGS report, nor information relating to, or contained in the report, was sought...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Administration (10 Apr 2014)

Ciarán Cannon: The report was made available to the Department of Finance on 16th October 2009. The specific confidentiality agreement was not referred to, but the Department of Finance was advised that the report contained commercially sensitive material and was being made available solely for the use of that Department. The confidentiality agreement referred to by the Deputy was put in place prior to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: SOLAS Administration (10 Apr 2014)

Ciarán Cannon: The management of a SOLAS Training Centre is a day to day operational matter for SOLAS as provided for in the Further Education and Training Act 2013. I understand that SIPTU has written to SOLAS regarding working conditions in the SOLAS Training Centre in Limerick and that a meeting is due to take place shortly between SOLAS management and SIPTU to discuss these matters.

Other Questions: Guidance Counsellors (9 Apr 2014)

Ciarán Cannon: I do not intend to revise the changes made in budget 2012 whereby guidance counselling is provided from within the overall staffing allocation of a school. This gives schools greater autonomy to determine how they deploy their teaching resources across the competing needs of schools. With economic recovery and as our budgetary position permits, when the Government is in a position to...

Other Questions: Guidance Counsellors (9 Apr 2014)

Ciarán Cannon: The Deputy may be aware that the initial policy idea around mainstrreaming guidance provision and sharing responsibility for it across the teaching community in individual schools came from principals. Since September 2012 guidance provision has been organised by school management from within the staffing schedule allocation. There is every reason to expect, as the country's economic...

Other Questions: Guidance Counsellors (9 Apr 2014)

Ciarán Cannon: The Deputy is diminishing the role of teachers. Many teachers, particularly in post-primary schools, may not be described as qualified guidance counsellors, but they have a deep knowledge of the options available to young people in choosing their third level path. As resources improve, it will be fully within the power of school principals and boards of management to make a decision to make...