Results 181-200 of 1,677 for speaker:Aisling Dolan
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Consent Programmes in Irish Education: Discussion (7 Nov 2023)
Aisling Dolan: Well done. Well said. I thank the witnesses very much. Hopefully they will have an opportunity at the end to come back in again.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Consent Programmes in Irish Education: Discussion (7 Nov 2023)
Aisling Dolan: Ms McDowell spoke about the new subjects, which I wanted to ask about so I thank her for that. The active consent programme has been in place for the past five years. I know Ms McDowell has been doing evidence-based research since 2013 and probably the same applies to the bystander intervention programme. What are the targets for the next five years? There are already 70,000 first-year...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Consent Programmes in Irish Education: Discussion (7 Nov 2023)
Aisling Dolan: There are 1 million primary and post-primary pupils. Even in Ballinasloe where I am from, which is a town of 7,000 people, there are 1,000 primary and 1,000 post-primary students.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Oct 2023)
Aisling Dolan: Today in the education committee we heard an update from Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science officials on targets the Department achieved under its performance review.Over 209,000 people are in higher education and over 32,000 people are in postgraduate education. We know the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Public Service Performance Report 2022: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)
Aisling Dolan: I welcome the departmental officials and I thank them for their statements.. They are going through the performance report and they have highlighted quite a lot of different areas. I wish to go through a few issues with them. The Department is looking at school buildings and school places according to the national development plan. I have heard some of our representatives here talk...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Public Service Performance Report 2022: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)
Aisling Dolan: I understand. I take that on board and hopefully the departmental officials can come back to me.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Public Service Performance Report 2022: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)
Aisling Dolan: School buildings and school places are the two in the national development plan.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Public Service Performance Report 2022: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)
Aisling Dolan: I thank Ms Kirwan. She may know the area I am referring to quite well. We potentially have another 200 homes coming onstream before next September, which are not included in the figures from the census or the GIS. How is the Department linking in with local authorities in this regard? I have talked to all the school principals and I know the schools are full in the town area. There is a...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Public Service Performance Report 2022: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)
Aisling Dolan: Does that information come from the planning offices of the local authorities?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Public Service Performance Report 2022: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)
Aisling Dolan: Do the county councils take it on themselves to contact the Department to notify it of additional developments?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Public Service Performance Report 2022: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)
Aisling Dolan: Does the Department have somebody who contacts the county council on a regular basis?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Public Service Performance Report 2022: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)
Aisling Dolan: Will Ms Kirwan provide a response to the committee on exactly how that engagement happens and how regularly it takes place?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Public Service Performance Report 2022: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)
Aisling Dolan: I would also like to know who the person is with responsibility for that in Galway and Roscommon.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Public Service Performance Report 2022: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)
Aisling Dolan: At what point does the Department talk to the school transport section when there is no additional accommodation and there is a need to have access to, say, a two-teacher school in a rural area?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Public Service Performance Report 2022: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)
Aisling Dolan: Is there a regular meeting between the school planning and school transport sections on all relevant issues across the country?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Public Service Performance Report 2022: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)
Aisling Dolan: I would be delighted to support Ms Kirwan in working towards a more structured engagement. Are any of the officials responsible for the school transport section?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Public Service Performance Report 2022: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)
Aisling Dolan: My main question is when the school transport review will be published. I am sure colleagues, including the Cathaoirleach, have asked the same. Is there any idea as to when it will be available? Second, structured engagement needs to happen in crisis areas where there potentially are challenges around school capacity in September. There must be structured engagement and a highlighting of...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Public Service Performance Report 2022: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)
Aisling Dolan: I thank Mr. O'Leary. I have one other point to raise with Ms Kirwan. I would love to invite her to see the really positive things that are happening in Ballinasloe. Our town is growing, with nearly 1,000 children in primary school and another 1,000 at post-primary level. Both of the secondary schools are 100 years old. Garbally College, the boys' school, and Ardscoil Mhuire, the girls'...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Public Service Performance Report 2022: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)
Aisling Dolan: All the questions are going to Ms Kirwan.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Public Service Performance Report 2022: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)
Aisling Dolan: After a wait of 27 years, Scoil an Chroí Naofa in Ballinasloe is getting a new building. I am always to be heard talking about this. After 27 years, planning permission is approved and the project will happen in three years. The school's pupil numbers are only going to increase, on top of the increase there has been. The amalgamation of the two secondary schools will cater for 1,000...