Results 1-20 of 39 for cavan speaker:Niall Collins

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Adult Education Provision (18 Jan 2024)

Niall Collins: ...Library Service: ‘Digital Skills for ALL’ in partnership with Mayo Sligo & Leitrim Education and Training Board;Monaghan County Libraries: ‘TechKnow@ Your Library – A Digital Literacy Empowerment Programme’ in partnership with Cavan and Monaghan Education and Training Board;Waterford City and County Library Service: ‘Family Summer Camp...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (1 Jun 2023)

Niall Collins: Cavan Monaghan Education and Training Board (CMETB) provides a broad range of further education and training options in Monaghan Institute and at other locations around County Monaghan. These options include various Adult and Community Education Programmes; PLC courses, Skills to Compete and Skills to Advance courses, Youthreach, as well as Apprenticeships and Traineeships. Tanagh Outdoor...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards (8 Dec 2022)

Niall Collins: ...personal assistants from information provided by the ETBs:  ETB Personal Assistants Employed Directly Personal Assistants via external providers Cavan and Monaghan ETB 12 N/A City of Dublin ETB N/A 60 Cork ETB 27 N/A Donegal ETB N/A ...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Accommodation (14 Sep 2022)

Niall Collins: I understand that in early July this year, the Technological University of the Shannon (TUS) terminated the agreement between the former Athlone Institute of Technology and Cavan Institute whereby students undertook the first year of the Level 7 BA degree in Applied Social Studies in Social Care in Cavan Institute and completed the remaining years in Athlone. TUS based their decision on foot...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: General Practitioner Services (7 Jul 2022)

Niall Collins: ...under the General Medical Services, GMS, scheme. As of 1 June, there were 33 GMS vacancies in the country, which just over 1% of the total number of GMS panels. There are two vacancies in the Cavan-Monaghan area. While GP out-of-hours co-operatives are private entities, the HSE provides substantial funding to support all co-operatives and covers a wide range of costs. NEDOC Limited...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (7 Jul 2022)

Niall Collins: As the Deputy will be aware, Cavan Monaghan Education and Training Board (CMETB) provides a broad range of further education and training options in Monaghan Institute and at other locations around County Monaghan. These options include various Adult and Community Education Programmes; PLC courses, Skills to Compete and Skills to Advance courses, Youthreach, as well as Apprenticeships and...

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...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Apprenticeship Programmes (8 Feb 2022)

Niall Collins: ..., in terms of diversity and gender we are also challenging the State, including the Civil Service and public service, to get involved in the apprenticeships space. She again raised the case of Cavan Institute. The Minister, Deputy Harris, and I are happy to engage on that, as we are happy to engage with any institution or college of further education. Our Department will advertise...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Educational Disadvantage (8 Feb 2022)

Niall Collins: ...2020 and 2021 is attached for the Deputy's information. Education and Training Board Total Funding Approved for 2021 MAEDF Total Funding Approved for 2020 MAEDF Total  Cavan and Monaghan ETB €641,182 €520,462 €1,161,644 City of Dublin ETB €1,273,594 ...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Technological Universities Act 2019 (Section 36) (Appointed Day) Order 2022: Discussion (25 Jan 2022)

Niall Collins: ...and Ulster. I very much look forward to this new TU bringing those benefits to people in the region, from its most westerly point to its most northerly, and all points between including in counties Cavan, Leitrim, Monaghan and Roscommon. The new TU will now take its rightful place in the higher education landscape in an important strategic part of the country, bordering as it will both...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards (19 Jan 2022)

Niall Collins: ...for initiatives in the Voluntary Secondary and Community and Comprehensive Schools under the 2021 MAEDF. MAEDF Funding Approved by ETB ETB 2021 2020 Difference 2021 compared to 2020 Cavan and Monaghan ETB €641,182 €520,462 €120,720 City of Dublin ETB €1,273,594 ...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Environmental Policy (20 Oct 2021)

Niall Collins: ...valid. Officials from Revenue will be watching this debate and will take note of what she said about social media and other forms of advertising campaigns that are impacting on fuel suppliers in Cavan-Monaghan, the part of the country the Deputy represents, which are impacting on suppliers on this side of the Border. Her points are fair ones. Revenue carries out enforcement operations...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (13 Oct 2021)

Niall Collins: As the Deputy will be aware, there is a broad range of further education and training provision available from Cavan Monaghan Education and Training Board. It takes place in a wide range of settings including PLC programmes at Monaghan Institute, a wide range of adult and community education programmes, Youthreach, as well as apprenticeships, traineeships and other upskilling and reskilling...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Further and Higher Education (24 Jun 2021)

Niall Collins: I am very happy to take up Deputy Smyth's invitation to visit Cavan and the barracks site and, indeed, any other sites which she deems appropriate, in order to press the case and help assist in the delivery of what is required. The development of the barracks site for Cavan Institute will enable delivery of a range of post-leaving certificate, PLC, programmes, including, but not limited to,...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Further and Higher Education (24 Jun 2021)

Niall Collins: I thank the Deputy for raising this matter, as it gives me the opportunity to set out for her, the House and the people of Cavan and elsewhere in the Border region the position as regards Cavan Institute and further education provision for Cavan town. I acknowledge the Deputy's strong advocacy for and championing of the cause of Cavan Institute and the region. She has raised this matter a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (20 May 2021)

Niall Collins: ...is captured in their strategic performance agreements with SOLAS. New iterations of these agreements are currently in development. FET provision in County Monaghan is delivered or contracted by Cavan Monaghan Education and Training Board (CMETB). The 2021 funding allocation from SOLAS to CMETB for FET services and provision is €27,736,001. While there are no higher education...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further Education and Training Colleges (15 Dec 2020)

Niall Collins: Cavan Monaghan Education and Training Board (CMETB) allocated funding of €1.72m to Monaghan Institute from their overall funding allocation received from SOLAS in 2020. This funding is used to support the range of Post Leaving Certificate, apprenticeship, traineeship and other provision delivered by Monaghan Institute across a range of subject areas. My Department provides funding...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (15 Dec 2020)

Niall Collins: ...in each programme 2019 year. County in which Course Delivered Number of Full Time Enrolments in FET programmes 2019 Carlow 1,987 Cavan 2,706 Clare 1,323 Cork 10,675 Donegal 1,758 Dublin 27,548 Galway 5,469 ...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further Education and Training Colleges (19 Nov 2020)

Niall Collins: I propose to take Questions Nos. 272 and 273 together. Cavan and Monaghan Education and Training Board (CMETB) received a significant increase in budget allocation from SOLAS in 2020.  The funding allocation to CMETB in 2019 was €18,533,460, and the provisional allocation for 2020 is €25,779,000. A diverse range of full time and part time courses are...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Support Schemes (7 Oct 2020)

Niall Collins: ...Precise information on the number of deliveries is not available but I understand that approximately half of the orders have been fulfilled to date. ETB Name ETB Confirmed Orders Cavan Monaghan ETB 320 City of Dublin ETB 1290 Cork ETB 647 Dublin Dun Laoighaire ETB 693 ...