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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Eligibility (28 Feb 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...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (26 Feb 2019)

John Halligan: I propose to answer Questions Nos. 158 to 160, inclusive, together. 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...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Youthreach Programme Staff (26 Feb 2019)

John Halligan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 179 and 180 together. I am informed by City of Dublin Education and Training Board that two Youthreach coordinators received payments above their annual salaries since 2011 and that this was in respect of payments that reflected their individual terms and conditions including honorarium payments for summer work. There were no Youthreach coordinators who...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (26 Feb 2019)

John Halligan: Securing additional skills supply from education and training to meet the needs of the construction sector is a major focus of my Department as part of broader Government actions to increase housing supply and roll out the National Development Plan (NDP) and the National Planning Framework (NPF). A Construction Sector Working Group has been established to ensure regular and open...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: European Globalisation Fund (26 Feb 2019)

John Halligan: Under the current EGF Regulation, when making an application for EGF support to the European Commission, a Member State must provide a reasoned analysis of the link between the redundancies and major structural changes in world trade patterns due to globalisation, demonstrated by: - A substantial increase in imports into the EU; - A serious shift in EU trade in goods or services; - A rapid...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Data (26 Feb 2019)

John Halligan: The latest available data for the information, as requested by the Deputy is for the end of January and is set out in the attached table.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: SOLAS Training and Education Programmes (26 Feb 2019)

John Halligan: As the Deputy is aware SOLAS is undertaking an upgrade of their IT systems supporting the Construction Skills Certification Scheme (CSCS) application process and will enable a Quality and Qualifications Ireland (QQI) certification fee waiver to be applied for at source. This is expected to be available later in 2019. Since my response to the Deputy's earlier question, which was based...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: SOLAS Training and Education Programmes Certification (26 Feb 2019)

John Halligan: Safe Pass is a one day health and safety awareness programme, which aims to provide those that work in construction environments with a level of basic knowledge and awareness of evolving health and safety standards and practices. The Safe Pass programme is administered by SOLAS and operated by a network of mainly private SOLAS-approved training providers. The primary objective of the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: EU Funding (26 Feb 2019)

John Halligan: The Managing Authorities for the European Social Fund (ESF) and the European Adjustment Globalisation Fund (EGF) are located within my Department. As set out in note 6.1 to the 2017 Appropriation Account, €23.173m was received into my Department’s Vote from EU funding as appropriations-in-aid, as follows: EU Funding Type A-in-A Receipts in 2017 Description ESF/YEI...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Provision (21 Feb 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 my...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (19 Feb 2019)

John Halligan: The Apprenticeship Council was established in 2014 to oversee the expansion of apprenticeship system in Ireland into new sectors of the economy. To date, twenty new consortia-led apprenticeship programmes have been developed in a variety of sectors ranging from financial services and ICT to hospitality and biopharma. Further new apprenticeships are due to get underway in 2019 in various...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Provision (19 Feb 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 has advised...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Provision (19 Feb 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. In general, children with...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Applications (19 Feb 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 my...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Oideachas Gaeltachta (14 Feb 2019)

John Halligan: Tá roinnt cúrsaí trí Ghaeilge á dtairiscint ag GRETB in Ionad Breisoideachais Ros Muc mar bhealaí chun cinn d’fhoghlaimeoirí. Tá na cúrsaí seo a leanas ar fáil: Riarachán Gnó Leibhéal 5; Cúram Sláinte Leibhéal 5; Cúram Leanaí Leibhéil 5 & 6. Ina theannta sin, tá cúrsa...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Eligibility (12 Feb 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 my...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: SOLAS Training and Education Programmes Data (12 Feb 2019)

John Halligan: As I indicated in Parliamentary Question No. 38 of 22 January 2019, a detailed analysis on the value and quality of the provision of the new contracted training multi supplier framework agreement is be undertaken. SOLAS expects a full year's data will be available in Q2 2019. at which time arrangements will be made for the detailed analysis to be carried out.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Youthreach Programme Review (12 Feb 2019)

John Halligan: The Further Education and Training Strategy (2014-2019) committed SOLAS to organising a schedule of independent evaluations of key areas of further education and training provision to ensure that they are effective in delivering the objectives of the programme for FET learners. The evaluation of Youthreach is part of this series of evaluations The purpose of the Youthreach evaluation is...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teagmháil na nÓg (12 Feb 2019)

John Halligan: Clár oideachas agus oiliúna é Youthreach a sholáthraítear i suíomhanna lasmuigh den scoil do dhaoine óga idir 16 – 20 bliain d’aois a bhfuil an príomhchóras scolaíochta fágtha go luath acu. Clár breisoideachais atá ann a bhíonn á stiúrú ag na Boird Oideachais agus Oiliúna (BOO). ...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Appeals (12 Feb 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 my...