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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Tendering (25 Jun 2019)

John Halligan: School transport is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department. There are currently over 117,500 children, including over 13,000 children with special educational needs, transported in over 5,000 vehicles on a daily basis to primary and post-primary schools throughout the country covering over 100 million kilometres annually. Bus Éireann, which...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Review (25 Jun 2019)

John Halligan: School transport is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department. There are currently over 117,500 children, including over 13,000 children with special educational needs, transported in over 5,000 vehicles on a daily basis to primary and post-primary schools throughout the country covering over 100 million kilometres annually. The purpose of the School...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Applications (25 Jun 2019)

John Halligan: School transport is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department. There are currently over 117,500 children, including over 13,000 children with special educational needs, transported in over 5,000 vehicles on a daily basis to primary and post-primary schools throughout the country covering over 100 million kilometres annually. I am pleased to advise that...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Horizon 2020 Strategy Funding (25 Jun 2019)

John Halligan: Horizon 2020 is the EU’s programme for research and innovation with a budget of just under €80 billion and covering the period 2014 to 2020. Horizon 2020 is a core part of Europe 2020, the Innovation Union and the European Research Area. Awards under Horizon 2020 assist investment in future jobs and growth, address people’s concerns about their livelihoods, safety...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Appeals (19 Jun 2019)

John Halligan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 129 to 131, inclusive, together. School transport is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department. There are currently over 117,500 children, including over 13,000 children with special educational needs, transported in over 5,000 vehicles on a daily basis to primary and post-primary schools throughout the country covering...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards Data (18 Jun 2019)

John Halligan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 164 and 165 together. The National Construction Training Centre in Mount Lucas caters for construction plant training and was established by FÁS in 2008. Following the establishment of SOLAS as the agency for further education and training in 2013, responsibility for former FÁS training centres was transferred to the Education and Training Boards....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Administration (18 Jun 2019)

John Halligan: School transport is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of my Department. There are currently over 117,500 children, including over 13,000 children with special educational needs, transported in over 5,000 vehicles on a daily basis to primary and post-primary schools throughout the country covering over 100 million kilometres annually. The purpose of the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Provision (13 Jun 2019)

John Halligan: School transport is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department. There are currently over 117,500 children, including over 13,000 children with special educational needs, transported in over 5,000 vehicles on a daily basis to primary and post-primary schools throughout the country covering over 100 million kilometres annually. The purpose of the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Provision (12 Jun 2019)

John Halligan: School transport is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of my Department. There are currently over 117,500 children, including over 13,000 children with special educational needs, transported in over 5,000 vehicles on a daily basis to primary and post-primary schools throughout the country covering over 100 million kilometres annually.  The purpose of the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Post-Leaving Certificate Courses Fees (12 Jun 2019)

John Halligan: The only centrally determined payment for the Post Leaving Certificate (PLC) programme is the €200 PLC participant contribution. This amount is not payable by persons with a medical card, as well as a number of other categories, which means that approximately 60% of PLC participants do not pay the contribution. The estimated cost to reduce the PLC participant...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: SOLAS Expenditure (11 Jun 2019)

John Halligan: The funding allocation from SOLAS to Education and Training Boards (ETBs) supports the delivery of key functions within the further education and training sector. The provision enables the management, administration, coordination and delivery of training which is located within the overall geographical area of an ETB.  Former SOLAS training centres were transferred to 11...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Provision (11 Jun 2019)

John Halligan: School transport is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department. There are currently over 117,500 children, including over 13,000 children with special educational needs, transported in over 5,000 vehicles on a daily basis to primary and post-primary schools throughout the country covering over 100 million km annually. Under the terms of my...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Applications (11 Jun 2019)

John Halligan: School transport is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department. There are currently over 117,500 children, including over 13,000 children with special educational needs, transported in over 5,000 vehicles on a daily basis to primary and post-primary schools throughout the country covering over 100 million kilometres annually. Under the terms of the School...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Applications (11 Jun 2019)

John Halligan: School transport is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of my Department. There are currently over 117,500 children, including over 13,000 children with special educational needs, transported in over 5,000 vehicles on a daily basis to primary and post-primary schools throughout the country covering over 100 million kilometres annually. A decision regarding the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Provision (29 May 2019)

John Halligan: School transport is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department. There are currently over 117,500 children, including over 13,000 children with special educational needs, transported in over 5,000 vehicles on a daily basis to primary and post-primary schools throughout the country covering over 100 million kilometres annually. The purpose of the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Administration (28 May 2019)

John Halligan: Under the Student Grant Scheme, eligible candidates may receive funding, provided they are attending an approved course at an approved institution and meet the prescribed conditions of funding, including those which relate to nationality, residency, previous academic attainment and means. Under the scheme, students must be attending approved full-time courses. Part-time courses are not...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (28 May 2019)

John Halligan: An Annual Student Contribution (ASC) is levied on all students attending Institutes of Technology (IoTs). Previously this ASC was paid by FÁS/SOLAS with apprentices themselves paying the part of the contribution relating to examination fees. As part of Budget 2014, SOLAS ceased making payments to IoTs and apprentices pay the full pro rata ASC. The amount charged to apprentices is...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (28 May 2019)

John Halligan: The total estimated cost per apprentice in craft apprenticeships is €6,900. There were 904 apprencties registered on the new consortia led apprenticeships at the end of 2018, which is not sufficient as yet to derive a reliable average cost, however this will be kept under review as greater numbers come on stream. Consequently, the estimated cost of providing an additional one...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Intellectual Property Management (28 May 2019)

John Halligan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 187 and 188 together. IDA Ireland is authorised by my Department to provide a range of measures and financial supports to companies, including those involved in the commercialisation of intellectual property. These supports include employment, capital, research and development, environmental and training grants. These grants remain an important means of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards (22 May 2019)

John Halligan: My Department has no role in relation to self-financing evening courses delivered by Education and Training Boards (ETBs).  However, officials have made enquiries about the matter and I understand from Kerry ETB have confirmed that the night classes in Art in Colaiste Gleann Lí on Mondays and Tuesday evenings have finished for the term as scheduled at the end of March and...