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- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Vote 27 - Education and Skills (Revised) (13 Jun 2013)
Joanna Tuffy: It is also the smallest, although I do not mean to be derogatory. It is important in the overall scheme of things, but in terms of access for people from disadvantaged areas, it would not come near that of the DIT and similar colleges. Trinity College Dublin has that programme, but it is a very small part of the bigger picture at the college. For example, it provides virtually the same...
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Vote 27 - Education and Skills (Revised) (13 Jun 2013)
Joanna Tuffy: I will do that.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Vote 27 - Education and Skills (Revised) (13 Jun 2013)
Joanna Tuffy: We will move on to programme C, higher education, which is on page 21 of the Department's brief. The list of headings is on page 22. This programme is covered on page 15 of our own brief. There are seven headings to be dealt with. Does anyone want to ask any questions? I will ask a general question. There seems to be a lack of transparency regarding some of the institutions....
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Vote 27 - Education and Skills (Revised) (13 Jun 2013)
Joanna Tuffy: What about Trinity College, which I attended?
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Vote 27 - Education and Skills (Revised) (13 Jun 2013)
Joanna Tuffy: I will move now to programme B. It is on page 18 of the Department briefing. It deals with skills development. It is on page 13 of our material. There are six headings in this programme, which includes FÁS, SOLAS administration and training costs. I will not list them all. We will begin questions.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Vote 27 - Education and Skills (Revised) (13 Jun 2013)
Joanna Tuffy: Does anybody else wish to speak?
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Vote 27 - Education and Skills (Revised) (13 Jun 2013)
Joanna Tuffy: We had very good attendance at that meeting from the committee and constituency Deputies. I asked whether the representatives from Ballyfermot whether the college would apply for SpringBoard. They thought they were not eligible. I tabled a number of parliamentary questions on the matter. I have established that the college could apply for SpringBoard. A place like that could be used by...
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Vote 27 - Education and Skills (Revised) (13 Jun 2013)
Joanna Tuffy: Are there any further questions?
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Vote 27 - Education and Skills (Revised) (13 Jun 2013)
Joanna Tuffy: The committee would be interested in hearing a comment from the Minister on programme A in regard to the question of the programme targets and associated financial allocations being contemplated for 2014.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Vote 27 - Education and Skills (Revised) (13 Jun 2013)
Joanna Tuffy: Although we are considering what happened, we are interested to know what information the Minister has from the Department on the targets under programme A and the associated financial allocations being contemplated for 2014. What are the Estimates for 2014?
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Vote 27 - Education and Skills (Revised) (13 Jun 2013)
Joanna Tuffy: Someone among the Minister's officials has a mobile telephone switched on and it is interfering with the sound. Perhaps the Minister and his officials can switch off their telephones. We are now dealing with early years education. The estimate lists ten context and impact indicator figures for programme A. These are reproduced on page 15 of the brief supplied by the Department. Deputy...
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Vote 27 - Education and Skills (Revised) (13 Jun 2013)
Joanna Tuffy: There should be greater scope for schools to reduce costs, whether energy or insurance costs, by co-operating regionally. Is there any progress on that, or will it happen under the education and training boards when they are set up?
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Vote 27 - Education and Skills (Revised) (13 Jun 2013)
Joanna Tuffy: We will be able to go into specifics like that when we go through the programmes. Is that all right?
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Vote 27 - Education and Skills (Revised) (13 Jun 2013)
Joanna Tuffy: Does anyone have questions on the general savings? Our advice is that the information the Minister has supplied to the committee does not include the comprehensive expenditure report we required. Is the Minister in a position to supply the committee with a statement of the outcome in relation to each of the comprehensive expenditure report measures that were to be introduced? Were they...
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Vote 27 - Education and Skills (Revised) (13 Jun 2013)
Joanna Tuffy: I move now to programme A, which relates to first, second and early years education. It is set out at page 15 of the Department's brief. There is additional material in the committee's brief from the Oireachtas secretariat at pages 10 and 11. I call for questions on the programme.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Vote 27 - Education and Skills (Revised) (13 Jun 2013)
Joanna Tuffy: I ask the Minister to be very brief on that. We need to move on to the different programmes if we are to get through our business.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Vote 27 - Education and Skills (Revised) (13 Jun 2013)
Joanna Tuffy: We will now consider the Estimate. We will commence with the general position in respect of savings measures that were to be introduced in 2012 and then we will move on to consider performance on expenditure proposals for 2013 programme by programme. We will follow the usual procedure that we have adopted and we will begin with spokespersons. I call Deputy McConalogue to ask questions...
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Vote 27 - Education and Skills (Revised) (13 Jun 2013)
Joanna Tuffy: If you go through the material prepared by the Oireachtas secretariat, it is on page nine.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Vote 27 - Education and Skills (Revised) (13 Jun 2013)
Joanna Tuffy: I am not sure what the story is. The relevant heading is on the page before that and refers to savings measures to be introduced from 2012.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Vote 27 - Education and Skills (Revised) (13 Jun 2013)
Joanna Tuffy: It is the document prepared by the secretariat.