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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Teacher Recruitment: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Apr 2018)
Thomas Byrne: Live stream.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Teacher Recruitment: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Apr 2018)
Thomas Byrne: No. I have done it, but it was online recorded.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Teacher Recruitment: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Apr 2018)
Thomas Byrne: No, it was not in Hibernia College.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Teacher Recruitment: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Apr 2018)
Thomas Byrne: I am sorry to interrupt but someone's phone in Dr. Rowland's vicinity is on and it is affecting his mic, or it could be a laptop connected to 4G.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Teacher Recruitment: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Apr 2018)
Thomas Byrne: I see Ms Irwin reacting so I will invite a response from her. I also invite Fr. Connell and John Irwin to respond.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Teacher Recruitment: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Apr 2018)
Thomas Byrne: Deputy Funchion is next.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Teacher Recruitment: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Apr 2018)
Thomas Byrne: Does Deputy Funchion have any particular questions for the witnesses?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Teacher Recruitment: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Apr 2018)
Thomas Byrne: In fairness, a lot of what has been said speaks for itself. Deputy Jan O'Sullivan is next.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Teacher Recruitment: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Apr 2018)
Thomas Byrne: I will start at this end, with Ms Joanne Irwin, and work my way down. If witnesses do not want to offer, they do not have to. However, they are welcome to.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Teacher Recruitment: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Apr 2018)
Thomas Byrne: We will take witnesses one by one and Dr. Rowland can come in again.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Teacher Recruitment: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Apr 2018)
Thomas Byrne: Does Professor Ó Duibhir wish to add anything?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Teacher Recruitment: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Apr 2018)
Thomas Byrne: The witnesses do not have many questions to answer, so I might also invite brief questions from Senators Gallagher and Leyden.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Teacher Recruitment: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Apr 2018)
Thomas Byrne: Does Dr. Rowland want to respond to some of the questions put to him?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Teacher Recruitment: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Apr 2018)
Thomas Byrne: To clarify, and this has come up a number of times - Ms Joanne Irwin mentioned it also - the numbers doing professional masters in education, PME, courses have dropped dramatically from approximately 2,000 in 2010 to approximately 700 last year.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Teacher Recruitment: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Apr 2018)
Thomas Byrne: I will not go to Dr. Looney directly but she might address that point in her contribution.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Teacher Recruitment: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Apr 2018)
Thomas Byrne: Why not?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Teacher Recruitment: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Apr 2018)
Thomas Byrne: I thank Dr. Rowland. To continue that I will call Dr. Looney, if she is ready.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Teacher Recruitment: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Apr 2018)
Thomas Byrne: Is that primary education or the concurrent degrees?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Teacher Recruitment: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Apr 2018)
Thomas Byrne: Deputy Leyden, we will just let-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Teacher Recruitment: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Apr 2018)
Thomas Byrne: Of course.