• Fianna Fail TD for Limerick County
• Entered the Dáil on 24 May 2007 — General election
• Email me whenever Niall Collins speaks (no more than once per day)

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Asks most questions about

• Subjects (based on headings added by the Dáil record): Departmental Expenditure, Ministerial Travel, Departmental Staff Data, Brexit Issues, Departmental Reports

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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (3 Jun 2021)

“The Action Plan for Apprenticeship 2021-2025 was launched on 19th April and sets out a five year plan which sets out new ways of structuring, funding, and promoting apprenticeships to make apprenticeship accessible to employers and learners. The actions set out in the plan seek to deliver on a target of 10,000 apprenticeship registrations per annum by 2025 across all sectors of the economy...”

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (3 Jun 2021)

“Ireland has a comprehensive body of employment legislation, in respect of which the Workplace Relations Commission is mandated to secure compliance. Employment rights legislation protects all employees, including apprentices who are legally employed on a contract of service basis. Where an individual believes they are being deprived of employment rights applicable to employees they may...”

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Provision (3 Jun 2021)

“Officials in my Department have engaged with City of Dublin Education and Training Board (CDETB) regarding the matter.   CDETB acknowledge that BTEI and VTOS have been a very positive dimension of Cabra Community College for the past thirty years. Cabra Community College is a second level site that accommodated further education and training provision when the site...”

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• Has spoken in 19 committee discussions and Dáil debates in the last year — well below average among TDs.
• Has received answers to 341 written questions in the last year — average among TDs.
• People have made 1 comment on this TD's speeches — average among TDs.
• This TD's speeches, in the printed record, are readable by an average 16–17 year old, going by the Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level score.
• 41 people are tracking whenever this TD speaks — email me whenever Niall Collins speaks.
• Has used three-word alliterative phrases (e.g. "public-private partnership") 555 times in debates — above average among TDs.
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