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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.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (28 Feb 2024)

Simon Harris: ...friend of County Kerry. I thank the Deputy for all his time in bringing me around many educational facilities there. I am delighted to say we have now received a proposal from Kerry ETB, through SOLAS, to rejuvenate and regenerate the old Pretty Polly site and turn it into a state-of-the-art further education college, specialising in hospitality and culinary training, which is obviously...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (28 Feb 2024) See 2 other results from this answer

Marian Harkin: 200. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on the independent evaluation of the specialist training provision carried out by SOLAS; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9651/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Further and Higher Education (27 Feb 2024)

Simon Harris: ...why third level education cannot be open to them at a later stage of life, an opportunity that may not have been afforded to them in the way it is afforded to the current younger generation. The SOLAS skills to advance programme offers free upskilling support to people in key areas such as digital skills, remote working, healthcare and smart driving. My Department is absolutely committed...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Adult Education Provision (27 Feb 2024)

Simon Harris: ...proper way to address this. The Deputy and I have talked about the issue of what we can do in the meantime, and I want to truthfully acknowledge that the Deputy has championed this. I have approved SOLAS to set an hourly rate of €21 under the fund for students with disabilities for personal assistants employed directly by ETBs with effect from 1 March. That is up from an hourly...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: North-South Student Mobility: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Feb 2024) See 2 other results from this debate

Paul Kehoe: ..., and Ms Anita Fitzgerald, assistant principal officer; from the Higher Education Authority, Ms Sheena Duffy, head of international, communications, and equality, diversity and inclusion; and from SOLAS, Mr. Andrew Brownlee, CEO. The witnesses are here to brief us on the implementation of the key recommendations outlined in the joint committee's report entitled North South Student...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (27 Feb 2024)

Simon Harris: The Deputy will be aware that over the course of 2023, Kerry ETB (KETB) were supported by SOLAS in developing their Preliminary Business Case (PBC) proposal for Killarney under the FET College of the Future Major Projects fund. The development of a robust PBC is fundamental to the requirements of the Infrastructure Guidelines. KETB submitted their business case for their FET College of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Provision (27 Feb 2024)

Simon Harris: The Prison Education Taskforce, which I co-chair with Minister for Law Reform, James Browne TD, was established last May. With representatives from both Departments, the Irish Prison Service, SOLAS, the National Apprenticeship Office, Education and Training Boards Ireland, the Probation Service, Maynooth University and former prisoners, the Taskforce aims to improve education and upskilling...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards (27 Feb 2024)

Niall Collins: ...sector, have submitted an updated proposal to the Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform. The award of Building Momentum increases due to those tutors on SOLAS-funded programmes who are paid on self-financing rates will also be addressed as part of this process. Officials are engaging on the updated proposal and I expect to be in a position to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (27 Feb 2024)

Simon Harris: ...2021-2025, the Adult Literacy for Life Strategy and Future FET: Transforming Learning, the FET Strategy 2020-2024. All 16 ETBs, including LCETB, have a Strategic Performance Agreement in place with SOLAS covering 2022-2024. In all agreements each ETB sets out their local ambition for achievement across 12 agreed national targets.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (27 Feb 2024)

Simon Harris: ...education and training programmes and supports suited to the identified needs of individuals with the aim of enabling every citizen, including those from disadvantage backgrounds and ethnic minorities, to participate fully in society. SOLAS, working closely with my Department, has established multi-annual strategic performance agreements with the 16 Education and Training Boards (ETBs)....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Reform (27 Feb 2024)

Simon Harris: ..., and commits to embedding it in professional development for staff and in the curriculum for learners. Mental health and wellbeing supports are a condition of funding within the annual funding requirements set by SOLAS for ETBs. When engaging with younger learners and in particular those most at risk of social exclusion, there can be an increased need for the availability of mental...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Priorities (27 Feb 2024)

Simon Harris: ...educational been significantly improved. MTU’s Tralee Campus offers a wide range of courses between Level 6 and Level 10, as well as offering apprenticeship Certificates of Attendance via SOLAS for Agricultural Mechanics, Carpentry and Joinery, Electrical, and a Chef de Partie apprenticeship. In 2023, my Department introduced the new tertiary degree programmes, which will see...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (27 Feb 2024)

Simon Harris: ...training programmes and supports suited to the identified needs of individuals with the aim of enabling every citizen, including those facing marginalisation and disadvantage, to participate fully in society. SOLAS, working closely with the Department, has established multi-annual strategic performance agreements with the 16 Education and Training Boards (ETBs). ETBs are measured on...