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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards (8 Oct 2024)

Niall Collins: My Department advised the Education and Training Boards last April on the formal arrangements for the establishment of the new grade of Adult Educator. Subsequently, each Education and Training Board has been consulting with their Adult Education Tutors to determine whether they wish to convert to the new grade or remain on their current terms and conditions. The implementation process is...

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (3 Oct 2024)

Niall Collins: I am sharing time with Deputy James O’Connor. I am glad to have the opportunity to speak on the budget, which we were apprised of this week by the Ministers, Deputies Donohoe and Chambers. I congratulate both Ministers on their presentations and in particular, my colleague Deputy Chambers who presented his first budget to the House as Minister for Finance and, indeed, our deputy...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Equipment (3 Oct 2024)

Niall Collins: 94. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she can fund the provision of replacement lockers (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39563/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Telecommunications Infrastructure (2 Oct 2024)

Niall Collins: 74. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the radar and associated communications infrastructure at a location (details supplied) has been decommissioned and no longer in use; if not, the plans for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39306/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Correspondence (2 Oct 2024)

Niall Collins: 104. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she or her legal representatives will expedite a reply to correspondence (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39304/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (2 Oct 2024)

Niall Collins: 109. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she proposes to increase the hourly rate of €13.40 paid to bus escorts for special education schools; when this rate was last revised; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39350/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Tree Remediation (1 Oct 2024)

Niall Collins: 99. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is aware of the number of landowners across the country who have trees which are non-commercial plantations impacted by ash dieback adjacent to public roads; if he has assessed the associated potential risk to road safety; if he would consider a scheme to help landowners with the cost of removal of their impacted trees; and if he...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (1 Oct 2024)

Niall Collins: 211. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will report on her contacts with a school (details supplied) in respect of the proposed building programme at the school; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38947/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (1 Oct 2024)

Niall Collins: 216. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if funding is available to help avoid a potential issue (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38979/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Septic Tanks (1 Oct 2024)

Niall Collins: 268. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if any assistance can be offered to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38811/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Citizens Information Services (1 Oct 2024)

Niall Collins: 314. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection for an update on a matter (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38985/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Pension Provisions (1 Oct 2024)

Niall Collins: 480. To ask the Minister for Health if he can advise regarding correspondence received in relation to abatement of public service occupational pensions from the Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform, Circular 2024/2022 received by rehired mental health nurses (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38741/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards (1 Oct 2024)

Niall Collins: As the Deputy is aware, my Department has significantly increased its investment in the Further Education and Training (FET) sector in the last number of years, from circa €909 million in 2020 to €1,055 million in 2024 (excluding capital allocation). SOLAS is responsible for the strategic co-ordination and funding of the FET sector in Ireland, and it allocates funding to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards (1 Oct 2024)

Niall Collins: As the Deputy is aware, a new grade of Adult Educator, with a standardised pay scale aligned to the Youthreach Resource Personnel Scale, was formally established earlier this year. Existing tutors, some 2,800, have the option of assimilating to the new incremental pay scale, with effect from 1st April 2023, or remaining on their current terms and conditions. The Education and Training...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Staff (1 Oct 2024)

Niall Collins: I thank the Deputy for his question. Based on latest data available, the cost of reducing the staff/student ratio in the higher education sector by one point is estimated at €77.5m. The cost of reducing the ratio by two and three points is estimated at €166m and €267m respectively. Calculations are based on the 2022/23 higher education sector enrolment figures for...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (1 Oct 2024)

Niall Collins: As the Deputy is aware, Further Education and Training (FET) encompasses a wide range of courses and programmes, ranging from Level 1 to Level 6 on the National Framework of Qualifications, i.e., from basic literacy programmes to apprenticeships. Different levels of engagement are required for the learner depending on their needs and the course requirements, e.g., full-time, part-time,...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards (1 Oct 2024)

Niall Collins: As the Deputy is aware, my Department has significantly increased its investment in the Further Education and Training (FET) sector in the last number of years, from circa €909 million in 2020 to €1,055 million in 2024 (excluding capital allocation). As the state agency responsible for the FET sector in Ireland, SOLAS allocates the bulk of this funding to the 16 Education...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards (1 Oct 2024)

Niall Collins: As the Deputy is aware, my Department has significantly increased its investment in the Further Education and Training (FET) sector in the last number of years, from circa €909 million in 2020 to €1,055 million in 2024 (excluding capital allocation). As the state agency responsible for the FET sector in Ireland, SOLAS allocates the bulk of this funding to the 16 Education...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (26 Sep 2024)

Niall Collins: 159. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on an ASD unit (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38395/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (26 Sep 2024)

Niall Collins: 189. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a disability benefit (details supplied), now under review, will be restored immediately; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38291/24]