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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Financial Services (26 May 2022)

Niall Collins: 240. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if an applicant for a local authority mortgage for a self-build property can avail of the opt-out option for certification; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27101/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Special Protection Areas (25 May 2022)

Niall Collins: 47. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will review documentation and advise on the assistance that will be offered to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26727/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (25 May 2022)

Niall Collins: 109. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 103 of 27 April 2022, the persons that will be taking on this pupil’s case load; the format that it will take; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26722/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Question Heading for question(s) 115 (25 May 2022)

Niall Collins: 115. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if assistance will be offered to a family (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26823/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Correspondence (25 May 2022)

Niall Collins: 163. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will advise a family (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26821/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Taxi Licences (24 May 2022)

Niall Collins: 124. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if advice will be provided regarding an extension to a licence for a person (details supplied); the options that may be available to the person going forward; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25703/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (24 May 2022)

Niall Collins: 219. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of a development (details supplied); the amount of funding that has been committed to date; if the site cost has been funded; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25945/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Traveller Accommodation (24 May 2022)

Niall Collins: 233. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the caravan purchase loan scheme will be operational again in Limerick; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26297/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Ukraine War (24 May 2022)

Niall Collins: 491. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will advise on a family relocation matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25689/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Funding (24 May 2022)

Niall Collins: My officials contacted Cavan Monaghan Education and Training Board (CMETB) who advised that it recently published its call for proposals under the Mitigating Against Educational Disadvantage Fund (MAEDF) / Community Education Grants on its website at www.cmetb.ie/funding-announcement/13/05/2022/. The MAEDF is designed to increase the capacity of community and youth education...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (24 May 2022)

Niall Collins: The Fund for Students with Disabilities (FSD) provides funding to higher and further education institutions for the delivery of key services and supports for students with disabilities. It aims to support the personal, educational and professional development of the participating students. While historically administered by the Higher Education Authority, responsibility for the Fund in...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (24 May 2022)

Niall Collins: 669. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 316 of 17 February 2022, the current staffing levels of paediatric epilepsy services at University Hospital Limerick; the current vacancies which exist in the service; the measures that are being taken to recruit staff for these services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26402/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Apprenticeship Programmes (19 May 2022)

Niall Collins: I thank Deputy Calleary. This is of high priority. Our Department is engaged actively and proactively through each of our ETBs. There have been several reports arising from the work of the Expert Group on Future Skills Needs and also the work on having a zero-carbon economy. They have produced targets in respect of which we are trying actively to create awareness and ensure that all...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Apprenticeship Programmes (19 May 2022)

Niall Collins: In reply to Deputy Calleary, an NZEB centre in Sligo is being worked on and is to be opened soon. On Deputy Conway-Walsh's concerns, we will talk to the national apprenticeship office.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Apprenticeship Programmes (19 May 2022)

Niall Collins: I thank the Deputies for the question. A range of skills are needed to support delivery of the new national retrofit scheme, including general operatives, those with short retrofit-related courses, craft apprentices and those with professional qualifications in areas such as architecture and engineering. Consequently, education and training relevant to the skills needed for retrofitting...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Apprenticeship Programmes (19 May 2022)

Niall Collins: I thank Deputy McNamara for his question. I know he has raised it previously. The backdrop to the current waiting lists for essential practical training for apprentices is reflected in the extended shutdown of on-site learning activity from March 2020. The closure of education and training facilities in response to the Covid-19 pandemic precluded access to off-the-job training. The...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Apprenticeship Programmes (19 May 2022)

Niall Collins: I thank the Deputy. We all share the same ambitions and it is good to see that those ambitions are, in the main, being realised. The apprenticeship action plan set out a target to achieve 10,000 new apprenticeship registrations per annum by 2025. In the year 2021, a record 8,607 new apprentices were registered on the system. That is an increase of nearly 40% on the comparator year,...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Apprenticeship Programmes (19 May 2022)

Niall Collins: It is important to reiterate that significant money was applied towards creating additional capacity. I have explained to the Deputy the additional number of posts that have been approved, which is more than 100. There were also other interventions in the delivery structures of phase 2 off-the-job training and the facilitation of a third intake. Last December, there was an opt-in rapid...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (19 May 2022)

Niall Collins: A range of industrial relations issues pertaining to adult education tutors have been under discussion for several years under the aegis of the Department of Education and Skills preceding the establishment of my Department. Notwithstanding this progress, the claim to align tutors to a pay scale of an existing grade ineducation and training boards (ETBs) currently remains unresolved. The...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (19 May 2022)

Niall Collins: As the Deputy may be aware, apprenticeship is undertaken under a contract of employment and for the 25 craft apprenticeship programmes, the rates of pay applying under the employment contract are either agreed within the relevant sector, or are set out in legally binding Sectoral Employment Orders recommended by the Labour Court. For turner fitter engineer apprentices specifically, or...