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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...

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

Simon Harris: Craft apprenticeships have a largely standardised delivery model. SOLAS serve as a central coordinating provider, setting curricula across programmes. Craft apprenticeship programmes are continually monitored with the aim to keeping them up-to-date and in line with industry standards. Programme content is updated from time to time to allow for technical or legislative changes. QQI will be...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (27 Feb 2024) See 2 other results from this answer

Simon Harris: The Deputy will be aware that over the course of 2023, Cavan Monaghan ETB (CMETB) were supported by SOLAS in developing their Preliminary Business Case (PBC) proposal for Cavan town 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. CMETB submitted their business case for their FET...

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

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

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

Niall Collins: SOLAS has advised that modern foreign languages courses (French, German, Spanish, Italian) are offered as part of some Post Leaving Certificate (PLC) and other programmes such as the Back to Education Initiative and Community Education. Students pursuing PLC courses may qualify for maintenance grants under the SUSI PLC Grant Scheme if they satisfy the scheme conditions. The €200 PLC...

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

Simon Harris: ...Government Departments and agencies, the education and training system, and enterprise. The broader skills ecosystem also encompasses entities including the Skills and Labour Market Research Unit (SLMRU, hosted in SOLAS), the Expert Group on Future Skills Needs (EGFSN, Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment) and the National Training Fund Advisory Group (NTFAG, DFHERIS). The...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service (22 Feb 2024)

Helen McEntee: ...available courses and activities with certification. The Prison Education Taskforce, chaired by Minister Harris and Minister Browne comprises of 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...

Seanad: Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (21 Feb 2024)

Jerry Buttimer: I welcome to the Public Gallery guests of Senator Sharon Keogan, our friend and colleague. She is joined by her sister, Councillor Geraldine Keogan, and guests from the Donore Solas 21 Tidy Towns group from County Meath. They are very welcome. Céad míle fáilte. I thank them for being here.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Energy Poverty: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)

Róisín Garvey: ...authorities and local development communities meaning that we are not seeing the same level in other counties? On the issue of tradesmen, Mr. Boland is absolutely right. I have been meeting SOLAS. I am getting the CEO of SOLAS and the head of apprenticeships to come into Leinster House to do a presentation in the audiovisual room. I will be inviting all TDs and Senators to come in to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (20 Feb 2024)

Simon Harris: ..., along with the latest taught version of the syllabus of each programme; the date it was first published; the date of last review by QQI, is attached. The information which was being collated by SOLAS is now available and is set out in the attached table. As you will note from the table, 15 of 25 craft programme syllabi have proposed roll-outs in 2024. Of these, five programmes have...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards (20 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 it is hoped to conclude this matter...

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 24 - Justice
Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024)

Ms Caron McCaffrey: I can say we are working quite closely with SOLAS and there is a building bridges programme that is aiming to increase the level of supports we have available within our prisons, especially for people with learning disabilities. Through that programme we have introduced things like ReaderPens, which have been transformational for people, so they are now in a position to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (15 Feb 2024) See 1 other result from this answer

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 it is hoped to conclude this matter...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Public Sector Pay (15 Feb 2024)

Niall Collins: ...negotiations with staff representatives and 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 it is hoped to conclude this matter at...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Energy Poverty: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)

...up into the various skill types and skill sets. That report, which was a really comprehensive piece of work, was then handed over to the Department of further and higher education, primarily, and SOLAS, which have been putting a major focus on the retrofitting and near-zero energy building, NZEB, agenda in recent years. The focus has mainly been on two strands, namely, apprenticeships...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: North-South Student Mobility: Discussion (13 Feb 2024) See 2 other results from this debate

...report on North-South student enrolment in tertiary education. It is worth revisiting the recommendations from that report and the progress made in preparation for today's discussion. The HEA and SOLAS are now more engaged in cross-Border activity with a particular focus on all-island apprenticeship programmes, funding of nursing and medical education places in Northern Ireland for...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Labour Market (8 Feb 2024)

Simon Coveney: ...is overseen by the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science. The 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, the Secretariat for which is based in the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Adult Education Provision (8 Feb 2024)

Niall Collins: ..., have recently 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 it is hoped to conclude this...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards (7 Feb 2024)

Simon Harris: ..., have recently 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 it is hoped to conclude this...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (7 Feb 2024)

Seán Canney: 593. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he is aware of the different rates of pay given by SOLAS to apprentices who are undertaking the same off-the-job training programme, will get the same qualification and do the same work; if he will address the pay difference paid by SOLAS to electrical apprentices in the engineering industry and electrical industry; and if he will make a...