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Seanad: Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Committee Stage (23 Apr 2024)

Niall Collins: ...for action and puts these considerations at the heart of the assessment process. For this reason, we do not propose to accept the amendment. Amendment No. 9 again potentially limits the longevity and future focus of the Bill. The United Nations sustainable development goals, as I said previously, only run up to 2030. This means that amendments will be required on a running basis to...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: School Accommodation (21 Mar 2024)

Niall Collins: ...of its existing accommodation capacity when managing its enrolments. The current enrolment of the school is 134 pupils. While the Department is working to put a solution in place for the long-term needs of the school, additional accommodation has been provided for the school in recent years. In July 2022, the school was approved to proceed with rental of accommodation at a premises at...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: School Accommodation (21 Mar 2024)

Niall Collins: ...to the House on Castlebar Educate Together National School. As I have outlined, the Department is engaging with Educate Together on the accommodation that is required in the short, medium and long term. I can assure the Senator that the Department is working to provide a long-term accommodation solution for the school in question. Our officials remain available to work with the school...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Housing Schemes (31 Jan 2024)

Niall Collins: ...rents in the private sector and who are not eligible for social housing support. The core principle of cost rental is that the rents cover the development, management and maintenance costs of the homes so that the long-term future of those homes is financially secure but that rents are not subject to the pressures of the open market. Rents will increase only in line with consumer...

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 45 - Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Revised) (31 Jan 2024)

Niall Collins: We are writing to them. The Minister, Deputy Harris, has either written in the last day or two or is about to write to each TU to get them to tell us what their requirements are in the medium to long term. As members know, an exercise was carried out last year whereby €1 million was provided across all the TUs to help them to do a proper assessment of what their medium to long-term...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Dental Services (14 Nov 2023)

Niall Collins: ..., there will be an early and continued emphasis on addressing current access issues. The policy fundamentally aspires that all Irish people will have their own dental home where they build a life-long relationship with a local dental practice or practices of their choosing for continuity of care from birth to old age. The policy has two goals: to provide supports to enable every...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: School Transport (21 Sep 2023)

Niall Collins: ...a tour to the Dáil and the Houses of the Oireachtas in a bus driven by a man or woman who could be 85. It does not make sense. Bus Éireann, which is charged with running the scheme, needs to take a long hard look at that. I will convey to the Minister for Education the sentiments expressed by the Deputy.

Affordable Housing: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (21 Sep 2023)

Niall Collins: ...to continuing calls for the restoration of the winter eviction ban, the Government has been categorical in its considered view that any continued reliance on such measures would be detrimental to medium- and long-term supply of private rental accommodation. This position has not changed. The alternative, and correct course of action, has been to focus on the additional measures announced...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (20 Sep 2023)

Niall Collins: 627. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when an application (details supplied) will be processed; the reason that this process takes so long; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39838/23]

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Pharmacy Services (22 Jun 2023)

Niall Collins: ...to the aims and vision of Sláintecare. The focus of Sláintecare is to develop primary and community care that makes it possible for people to stay healthy in their homes and communities for as long as possible. The Department is open to exploring any evidence-based and appropriately governed services delivered by appropriately trained professionals which will support this aim....

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Electric Vehicles (10 May 2023)

Niall Collins: ...for EVs matures and begins to match, then exceed, internal combustion in practically all areas. Our charging network is, similarly, on a journey towards maturity, with strong growth under way and long-term planning focused on meeting future needs. The move from internal combustion to electrified transport is not going to be easy. In fact, as a societal shift, it is quite monumental...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Official Engagements (18 Apr 2023)

Niall Collins: ...largest higher education institution in Malaysia. In addition, I also had a bilateral meeting with the Malaysian Minister for Higher Education, Khaled Nordin, where, inter alia, we discussed the long-standing education links between Malaysia and Ireland, the role of the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research Innovation and Science, and opportunities for enhanced academic...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Housing Schemes (28 Mar 2023)

Niall Collins: ...in funding through the Land Development Agency and €5 billion funding through the Housing Finance Agency. Under Housing for All, the Government will deliver 47,600 new build social homes and 3,500 social homes through long-term leasing in the period 2022 to 2026. Our clear focus is to increase the stock of social housing through new build projects delivered by local authorities...

Personal Explanation by Minister of State (2 Mar 2023)

Niall Collins: ...Policy' ... into account, residential development within the pressure area will only be allowed in the following cases; That which is necessary for agriculture or related rural activities and for long term resident landholders. Dwellings for sons and daughters of these categories will also be permitted. Dwellings for applicants who are working in essential rural activities. Any person...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Home Care Packages (2 Feb 2023)

Niall Collins: ...of a high-quality consistent home support service is a key priority for the Cork and Kerry community healthcare organisation, CHO 4, focusing on keeping people well in their homes and communities for as long as possible, in line with enhanced investment. As of November 2022, the latest available preliminary data show in excess of €19 million hours of home support had been...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Reform (6 Dec 2022)

Niall Collins: ...FET courses. Of that number, 5,715 have started or completed their FET course. One of the key commitments in Pathways to Work which my Department is working with DSP to deliver on, is to support 50,000 long-term unemployed people to commence in FET by 2025. Skillnet Ireland also provides upskilling and reskilling opportunities for unemployed people nationwide through its Skills...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (6 Dec 2022)

Niall Collins: 695. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that the waiting time for colposcopy appointments in Limerick is so long; the plans to improve the service availability; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [60936/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (1 Dec 2022)

Niall Collins: .... Individualised supports, for addressing more specific needs among a smaller subset of learners will, of course, be maintained and promoted. Building on its 2017 research into barriers to FET for the long-term unemployed and other vulnerable groups, SOLAS intends to commission further research and examine barriers to participation in FET, with particular reference to persons with a...

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 26 - Education (Supplementary)
Vote 45 - Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022)

Niall Collins: ...advanced. If it has not gone out to tender, but it is at a point where it is about to. I know the background to it. As the Deputy noted, it has been through a journey which has taken far too long. It is fair to say that it is at a point where we will see the refurbishment and development of the site as the apprenticeship training centre, which it is earmarked to be, commencing shortly.

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 26 - Education (Supplementary)
Vote 45 - Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022)

Niall Collins: ...give the committee anything more definitive in respect of recurring payments. The Deputy is right that many of the measures are one-offs to address the current cost-of-living crisis. None of us can predict how long the crisis will last. It has always been the position of the Government that these are to be one-off measures and that if we have to, we will revisit the situation. The...