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Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (15 Feb 2022)

Niall Collins: 893. To ask the Minister for Health if nursing staff working in the dialysis unit at University Hospital Limerick will receive the €1,000 Covid payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8333/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (15 Feb 2022)

Niall Collins: 894. To ask the Minister for Health when the general practitioner visit card will be extended to children under 12 years of age; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8334/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (15 Feb 2022)

Niall Collins: 982. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of an appeal by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8353/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Exemptions (10 Feb 2022)

Niall Collins: 248. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on a scheme (details supplied); if it can be implemented here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7249/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (10 Feb 2022)

Niall Collins: 427. To ask the Minister for Health if persons in a group (details supplied) will receive the €1,000 pandemic payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7266/22]

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 26 - Education (Revised)
Vote 45 - Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Revised) (10 Feb 2022)

Niall Collins: I thank the committee for the opportunity to contribute to its consideration of this Department’s Revised Estimates. I am conscious that I have only five minutes to deliver my opening statement. I will, therefore, give a very brief overview of the Revised Estimates for my Department for 2022. The Revised Estimate for Vote 45 that is before the committee now provides for a net...

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 26 - Education (Revised)
Vote 45 - Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Revised) (10 Feb 2022)

Niall Collins: I will come back to the Deputy on that one.

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 26 - Education (Revised)
Vote 45 - Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Revised) (10 Feb 2022)

Niall Collins: Yes, I will check the details and revert.

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 26 - Education (Revised)
Vote 45 - Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Revised) (10 Feb 2022)

Niall Collins: We will get the exact number for the Deputy. She will be aware that in the apprenticeship action plan we are setting a target to build 10,000 new registrations per annum until 2025. This is a target in the plan. We can supply these details afterwards to have them circulated to the committee. By way of information I will give an overview of where we are at. The total number of persons...

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 26 - Education (Revised)
Vote 45 - Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Revised) (10 Feb 2022)

Niall Collins: I will repeat myself, and it is not for any reason other than it is a fact. An amount of €37 million was provided between last year and this year to clear the backlog. SOLAS and the education and training boards are hiring more trainers and building more capacity. It is a fact we have also increased the number of registrations coming into the system. I do not have available to me...

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 26 - Education (Revised)
Vote 45 - Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Revised) (10 Feb 2022)

Niall Collins: The Deputy knows this but it is worth restating. The national apprenticeship office is kicking into gear. The director has been appointed. This will be a key focus of the office in terms of addressing the backlog and the point with regard to dropouts the Deputy has quite rightly raised. It was raised by another Deputy in the Dáil on Tuesday evening. This is something that will be on...

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 26 - Education (Revised)
Vote 45 - Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Revised) (10 Feb 2022)

Niall Collins: That is what he said and that is the intention.

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 26 - Education (Revised)
Vote 45 - Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Revised) (10 Feb 2022)

Niall Collins: To be helpful and to try to give the level of detail the Deputy is asking for, we can endeavour to give the information the Deputy is seeking with a month-by-month analysis.

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 26 - Education (Revised)
Vote 45 - Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Revised) (10 Feb 2022)

Niall Collins: I cannot give the Deputy that number now. I will provide it to her.

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 26 - Education (Revised)
Vote 45 - Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Revised) (10 Feb 2022)

Niall Collins: I will give an overview. The number of students in full-time higher education, which includes universities, technological universities, institutes of technology and other higher education colleges, in 2020 was 165,946. In 2014, it was 151,360. We can see the increase. The split between undergraduate and postgraduate, favouring undergraduate, is 85% to 15%. We have had a demographic...