Results 141-160 of 305 for long speaker:Ciarán Cannon

Seanad: Public Service Management (Transparency of Boards) Bill 2014: Second Stage (11 Jun 2014)

Ciarán Cannon: ...circumstances of the individual involved could, in the absence of a fee payment, determine whether they may or may not go forward for State board appointments. The abolition of the fee payment is not in the long term regarded as being supportive of ensuring boards are composed of suitably qualified candidates drawn from a wide range of social and economic backgrounds. In addition, and as...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Training Provision (27 May 2014)

Ciarán Cannon: I propose to take Questions Nos. 265 and 298 together. 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...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: SOLAS Training and Education Programmes Places (13 May 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...

Topical Issue Debate: Student Grant Scheme Administration (7 May 2014)

Ciarán Cannon: ...the introduction of special rates of maintenance grant for disadvantaged students, concluded that the target group of those most in need was defined in terms of dependants of persons receiving long-term welfare payments. At present, illness benefit is considered to be a short-term social welfare payment and, as the Deputy mentioned, persons can be on that payment for a period as short as...

Topical Issue Debate: Student Grant Scheme Administration (7 May 2014)

Ciarán Cannon: ...x20ac;2,500 for the student contribution charge. The special rate of grant is a targeted access measure to provide specific interventions for the most disadvantaged students recognising their ongoing long-term dependence on welfare support. Under the student grant scheme, the qualifying criteria for the special rate of grant must include one of the listed eligible long-term payments by...

Topical Issue Debate: Special Needs Assistants (1 May 2014)

Ciarán Cannon: ...of resources whereby a quantum of additional special educational needs resource teaching support would be allocated to schools based on the profiled need of each school. I feel that would go a long way towards addressing some of the concerns the Deputies have raised. On foot of that advice the Minister, Deputy Quinn, has asked the NCSE to establish a working group to propose a new...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Vocational Training Opportunities Scheme Eligibility (30 Apr 2014)

Ciarán Cannon: ...) provides individuals with the education and skills needed to gain employment or progress to further and/or higher education and training leading to employment. The primary target groups are the long-term unemployed, the low-skilled and disadvantaged. The only age limit specified for VTOS participants by my Department is that they must be aged 21 years and over and be in receipt of...

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: SOLAS Training and Education Programmes Administration (8 Apr 2014)

Ciarán Cannon: I propose to take Questions Nos. 176 and 177 together. 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...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: SOLAS Funding (8 Apr 2014)

Ciarán Cannon: I propose to take Questions Nos. 205 and 206 together. The payment of an additional training allowance of €20 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), Youthreach and VTOS training and education courses. In the present economic situation this...

Seanad: Reform of Further Education and Training: Statements (Resumed) (5 Mar 2014)

Ciarán Cannon: ...further education and training and the apprenticeship model among learners and parents. How do we raise their awareness of the unique value of such schemes and the ability to lead people to very long and rewarding careers? SOLAS is now in existence and has brought together the two disparate entities of further education and training. SOLAS has done a huge amount of work in conferring...

Seanad: Reform of Further Education and Training: Statements (Resumed) (5 Mar 2014)

Ciarán Cannon: ...up to work in the clean room. Their experience will be the same as if they were in any one of the medical manufacturing facilities that are in Galway. We hope the training will ensure they have a long and sustainable career in that sector. It is an exceptionally important opportunity for them but it shows how forensic one must be in determining where the skills shortages are in each...

Seanad: Reform of Further Education and Training: Statements (5 Mar 2014)

Ciarán Cannon: ...offices by my colleague, the Minister for Social Protection, Deputy Burton. These offices are designed to provide a more realistic and targeted approach to supporting unemployed individuals, particularly the long-term unemployed and young people, and helping them to stay close to the labour market. This approach will ensure regular and ongoing engagement with the unemployed to provide...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Traveller Community (26 Feb 2014)

Ciarán Cannon: I propose to take Questions Nos. 78 and 79 together. The payment of an additional training allowance of €20 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), Youthreach and VTOS training and education courses. In the present economic situation this...

Early Childhood Care and Education: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (12 Feb 2014)

Ciarán Cannon: ...available evidence indicates that it is the quality of the child care provision which is the key to good outcomes for children, whether it is delivered by service providers or parents. For far too long the focus of child care policy was on bricks and mortar and the physical environment in which children are cared for. Members will be aware that up to the start of the last decade,...

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Insurance Coverage (12 Feb 2014)

Ciarán Cannon: ...the level of resources available to address flood relief works. As a result of the cost and scale of these types of flood defence works, it is an approach which will see benefits over the medium and long term. The House will be aware that the provision of new flood cover or the renewal of existing flood cover is a commercial matter for insurance companies, which is based on an assessment...

Topical Issue Debate: Social Media Regulation (12 Feb 2014)

Ciarán Cannon: ...and empower our young people to use social media and all other forms of communication sensibly and not to engage in activity that compromises the safety of their friends and their peers. The long and perhaps difficult process in which we have always been engaged and in which we will continue to engage is to educate young people on how best to interact with and support one another. Deputy...

Topical Issue Debate: Schools Building Projects Administration (29 Jan 2014)

Ciarán Cannon: I thank the Deputy for raising this matter as it affords me the opportunity to outline the position on the building project for St. Matthew's national school in Ballymahon, County Longford, in the context of the Government's overall strategy for capital investment in education projects over the next few years. Decisions relating to meeting the accommodation needs of schools, including St....

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (Revised) (22 Jan 2014)

Ciarán Cannon: ...unique to Ireland. It is predicted that by late next year there will be almost 1 million job vacancies in the information and communications technology sector throughout the European Union. Not long after the formation of the Government the Minister, Deputy Quinn, and the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, Deputy Bruton, came together to establish our national ICT skills...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Places (26 Nov 2013)

Ciarán Cannon: ...programme, which is directed at young early school leavers aged 15 to 20, delivered over 3,600 places. In 2012 the Momentum programme had a dedicated theme to meet the specific needs of the long-term unemployed who are under 25s. Of the 6,500 total places available on Momentum 1,000 places were reserved for this category. Solas Community Training Centre provision, while not reserved for...