Seán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail)
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The next item is the work programme. The issue the committee must discuss is how we will structure our meeting with representatives of the education and training boards, ETBs, on 16 November. We agreed at a previous meeting to invite representatives of the City of Dublin Education and Training Board, CDETB, given its size and scale. The secretariat has proposed having representatives of the Department of Education and Skills and SOLAS, the funders of the ETBs, attend the first session together. I would like everyone to be present for the full meeting. In other words, I want the chairmen and chief executives of the two education and training boards to be present for the session with the Department and SOLAS. Further, I would like all representatives of the education and training boards to hear what is being said about all the individual ETBs. I do not want anyone coming or going at the meeting. I want all the groups to be fully aware of what is being said, although we will provide time for different sections. We do not want to take a silo approach. We want everyone present throughout. We will start the meeting with an information session with the Department and SOLAS. We suggest that representatives of the City of Dublin Education and Training Board be invited to the second session. While the CDETB separately administers the SUSI grant scheme, we should not mix up issues by discussing the grant scheme. It is a completely different issue.