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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Administration (27 May 2014)

Ciarán Cannon: Bus Éireann undertook to provide the Oireachtas Transport and Communications Committee, of which the Deputy is a member, with details of the breakdown of the savings due to efficiencies and details of the new "demand led" services provided, as outlined to the Committee in general terms on 7th May. This information is currently being compiled by Bus Éireann under three main headings...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Administration (27 May 2014)

Ciarán Cannon: The agreed accounting arrangements are as set out in the 1975 Summary of Accounting Arrangements. This includes an agreed 13% charge, or transport management charge, to cover all other direct costs and indirect costs attributable to the work carried out for the Department. In recent years an element of the 13% charge has been rebated to the Department by mutual consent. The FGS report...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Administration (27 May 2014)

Ciarán Cannon: I am advised by Bus Éireann that the inspections conducted by Freight Transport Association on behalf of the Company complement the annual statutory vehicle examinations as an additional measure designed to ensure that vehicles and maintenance records are maintained to appropriate standards, consistent with RSA guidelines, in the period between annual statutory tests taking place. These...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards (27 May 2014)

Ciarán Cannon: Funding is provided by my Department, through SOLAS, for further education and training programmes, including adult literacy. The literacy programme is delivered locally through the network of Education and Training Boards (ETBs). I understand from City of Dublin ETB that an adult literacy service is provided by the ETB in the centre referred to by the Deputy. There is no question of SOLAS...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Training Provision (27 May 2014)

Ciarán Cannon: I propose to take Questions Nos. 265 and 298 together. The payment of an additional training allowance of €31.80 per week for the long term unemployed was introduced during a period of high employment levels as an incentive for the long term unemployed to participate in FÁS (now SOLAS) training courses. The payment of this allowance was later extended to those persons in...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Eligibility (27 May 2014)

Ciarán Cannon: Under the terms of my Department's Primary School Transport Scheme children are eligible for transport where they reside not less than 3.2 kms from and are attending their nearest national school as determined by my Department/Bus Éireann, having regard to ethos and language. Bus Éireann which operates the school transport scheme on behalf of my Department has confirmed that the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards (27 May 2014)

Ciarán Cannon: Through a series of decisions the Government decided to replace 33 vocational education committees (VECs) with 16 new entities, to be known as education and training boards (ETBs), and to establish SOLAS to replace FÁS. The proposals in relation to SOLAS, as agreed by the Government, envisage a key role for the ETBs in relation to the future delivery of further education and training...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards (27 May 2014)

Ciarán Cannon: Community Training Centres (CTCs) are funded through SOLAS and the Education and Training Boards. They are managed and operated by independent local Boards of Management. The staff are employed by these groups and my Department does not have a direct role in staffing and employment issues relating to these bodies. Guidance has been sought by SOLAS on the payment of enhanced redundancy to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Eligibility (14 May 2014)

Ciarán Cannon: Children with special educational needs are eligible for school transport if they are attending the nearest recognised: mainstream school, special class/special school or a unit, that is or can be resourced, to meet their special educational needs under Department of Education and Skills' criteria. Children who are eligible for transport retain their eligibility while they remain enrolled in...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Eligibility (14 May 2014)

Ciarán Cannon: Children with special educational needs are eligible for free school transport if they are attending the nearest recognised: mainstream school, special class/special school or a unit, that is or can be resourced, to meet their special educational needs under Department of Education and Skills' criteria. Bus Éireann operates the scheme on behalf of my Department and is responsible for the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Administration (14 May 2014)

Ciarán Cannon: Neither I, nor my officials, are aware of any non-compliance with EU law or Irish Regulations in the administration of the school transport scheme.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Administration (14 May 2014)

Ciarán Cannon: The press release accurately represents the content of the FGS report and does not require correction.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Administration (14 May 2014)

Ciarán Cannon: Bus Éireann has advised, and the Department is satisfied, that all charges for maintenance costs attributable to the school transport scheme have been calculated in line with the 1975 Summary of Accounting Arrangements. I am satisfied that no issue of unlawful state aid and/or claw back arises. Furthermore, Bus Éireann has repeatedly confirmed that it does not cross subsidise...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Review (13 May 2014)

Ciarán Cannon: Bus Éireann which operates the school transport scheme on behalf of my Department is responsible for the planning and organising of school bus routes, including the designation of the pickup and set down points to be used by their bus services. Routes are planned in such a way to ensure that, as far as possible, eligible pupils have a reasonable standard of service while at the same...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: SOLAS Training and Education Programmes Administration (13 May 2014)

Ciarán Cannon: I understand that SOLAS does not have any involvement in the fees charged for training by approved Safe Pass providers. SOLAS charges Safe Pass providers a fee of €23 per registration card. This fee is intended to cover the cost of printing the card, postage, administration and monitoring of Safe Pass programmes. Persons who are unemployed and require funding for training are...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: SOLAS Training and Education Programmes Places (13 May 2014)

Ciarán Cannon: Following the dissolution of FAS, responsibility for the Apprenticeship Programme transferred to SOLAS. Participants on an off the job phase of the SOLAS Apprenticeship Programme attending an Institute of Technology are paid a SOLAS training allowance based on the gross wage norms relating to their particular trade. The amounts of these allowances remain unchanged from last year and are not...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: SOLAS Training and Education Programmes Places (13 May 2014)

Ciarán Cannon: The payment of an additional training allowance of €31.80 per week for the long term unemployed was introduced during a period of high employment levels as an incentive for the long term unemployed to participate in FÁS (now SOLAS) training courses. The payment of this allowance was later extended to those persons in receipt of social welfare disability payments to introduce...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Provision (13 May 2014)

Ciarán Cannon: Under the terms of my Department's Primary School Transport Scheme, children are eligible for transport where they reside not less than 3.2 kms from and are attending their nearest national school as determined by my Department/Bus Éireann, having regard to ethos and language. These eligibility criteria are applied equitably on a national basis to all children attending a national school...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Administration (13 May 2014)

Ciarán Cannon: The briefing referred to in my reply of 6 May 2014 was verbal briefing. As the Deputy will be aware, the FGS report referred to has been published, and is available to download on the following link: .

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Provision (13 May 2014)

Ciarán Cannon: Bus Éireann which operates the school transport scheme on behalf of my Department is responsible for the planning and organising of school bus routes, including the designation of the pickup and set down points to be used by their bus services. Routes are planned in such a way to ensure that, as far as possible, eligible pupils have a reasonable standard of service while at the same...