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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Youth Work Supports (24 Apr 2024)

Niall Collins: ...I understand that Education and Training Boards Ireland (ETBI) have issued a follow-up sectoral response survey to the 16 ETBs. ETBI will consider the individual ETB responses and prepare a report for SOLAS and my Department on the issues raised and measures taken in relation to issues raised.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Question Heading for question(s) 198 (24 Apr 2024) See 1 other result from this answer

Mairead Farrell: 198. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 581 of 7 February 2024, given that is has been three months, if he can please give an indication of when Solas will be in a position to provide a breakdown, by county, in tabular form, of the number of craft apprentices currently waiting for off the job training; and if he will make a statement on the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: European Year of Skills 2023: Discussion (23 Apr 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

...further education and training, FET, or higher education. We are funded primarily through the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, channelled through SOLAS and the 16 education and training boards, ETBs, and separately through the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth. Our funding rates remain at 2011 levels, which is...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service (23 Apr 2024)

Helen McEntee: ...Education Taskforce, co-chaired by my Department and the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, comprises key agencies such as the Irish Prison Service, Solas, the Probation Service, and the Education and Training Boards. The aim of the taskforce is to ensure greater alignment between prison education and work training and the tertiary education...

Citizens' Assembly Report on Biodiversity Loss: Motion (18 Apr 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: ...or for education programmes on biodiversity to be introduced in sectors beyond agriculture, for instance. The proposal has merit, however. I call on other Departments and sectors to consider what more they can do in this regard. The NPWS is collaborating with SOLAS and education and training boards, ETBs, on a nature skills training programme for staff and contractors in local...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Apr 2024)

Micheál Martin: ...of people signing up for apprenticeships. The number of craft apprenticeship registrations increased from 5,271 in 2019 to 6,588 in 2023, an increase of 25%. In October of last year, all of the stakeholders formed a task force. This comprised departmental officials, SOLAS, the NAO, the HEA, ETBI, the ETBs, employers, apprentices, staff and their union representatives. It developed a...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Business Supports (18 Apr 2024)

Peter Burke: ...aims to develop and retain a highly skilled workforce to serve the needs of the economy. This architecture draws on the labour market intelligence of the Skills and Labour Market Research Unit of SOLAS and the enterprise skills demand forecast studies of the Expert Group on Future Skills Needs (EGFSN), the Secretariat for which is based in my Department. The EGFSN is currently...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Provision (18 Apr 2024) See 1 other result from this answer

Niall Collins: ...English is not their first language, including but not limited to, IPAS and BOTP learners. The detailed data sought by the Deputy is not readily available however my officials are engaging with SOLAS and the ETBs to prepare a report on the available data for the Deputy.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (16 Apr 2024)

Simon Harris: ...also seen the expansion of the number of apprenticeship programmes. That is also a good thing. The Deputy is right that some people are waiting too long. The numbers are now falling, though, and SOLAS has produced a plan, which I know Deputy Mairéad Farrell will be familiar with, to eradicate the backlog for those waiting longer than they should be in terms of their phase 2...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Construction Industry (16 Apr 2024)

Heather Humphreys: Under the Housing for All Implementation Fund, a dedicated team staffed from the Department of Social Protection (DSP), SOLAS and the Education and Training Boards (ETBI) is supporting recruitment and training for the construction industry as part of the Future Building Initiative. In delivering on the Housing for All Action Plan, this Department committed to hold an annual national...

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Education Policy: Department of Education (11 Apr 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

...children in the system, and more importantly, how to get them through. An interesting statistic is published in our annual retention data. There are quite a number of Traveller children on the Solas further education and training, FET, system. I think 45% of the children who start in first year, rather than finishing in school, are finishing in the FET system.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Public Sector Pay (9 Apr 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 1695. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps his Department is taking to ensure that the funding bodies of SOLAS and Education and Training Boards ensure that funding is made available for employers to make agreed backdated payments to their staff under the Section 39 WRC Pay Agreement (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14406/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (9 Apr 2024)

Paul Donnelly: ...Skills the number of electrical, plumbing, stone laying and carpentry apprenticeships respectively waiting to progress their off-the-job training in phase 2, phase 4 and phase 6 respectively across SOLAS, in tabular form. [14785/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Education and Training Provision (20 Mar 2024)

Anne Rabbitte: .... Programmes for learners who may require additional assistance, including those with intellectual disabilities, tend to be delivered through Adult Literacy, Community Education and Specialist Training settings. SOLAS provides funding under the Fund for Students with Disabilities to the ETBs, who manage the funding allocations to PLC colleges for services and accommodations required to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Expenditure (20 Mar 2024)

Niall Collins: ...programmes and supports in specific settings for people with disabilities, whose needs that may not be catered for through non-specialist vocational training provision. The total allocation from SOLAS for the STP provision in 2023 amounted to some €40m. Some €16m of this related to FET Training Allowances payable those learners on the STP programmes who were in receipt of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Schemes (20 Mar 2024)

Simon Harris: Apprentices are scheduled to the nearest available training location from their home base. SOLAS continues to schedule apprentices to courses due to commence in 2024 and monitors the situation regarding capacity for apprenticeship programmes. To ensure that the system has the capacity to meet the training needs of rapidly increasing numbers of apprentices, expansion of the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Administrative Arrangements (20 Mar 2024)

Niall Collins: ...) have employed personal assistants to provide supports to learners under the Fund for Students with Disabilities. Following engagement with a variety of stakeholders on the issue, I authorised SOLAS to revise their Guidelines on the Fund for Students with Disabilities to provide for a standard hourly rate of €21 for personal assistant employed directly by ETBs, with effect from...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (7 Mar 2024) See 1 other result from this answer

Frank Feighan: 436. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a Leitrim based apprentice (details supplied) who trained under SOLAS are not recognising the time he spent working at an accredited company from July 2020 to May 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11373/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Education (5 Mar 2024)

Simon Harris: The information requested by Deputy Cairns is presently being collated by SOLAS. An answer will be forwarded to the Deputy as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (5 Mar 2024)

Simon Harris: The information requested by Deputy McAuliffe is presently being collated by SOLAS. An answer will be forwarded to the Deputy as soon as possible.