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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Update on Key Issues: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (24 Jan 2024)
Simon Harris: When I met the TU presidents and chairs with the Taoiseach recently, it is fair to say that it was one of the top three issues they raised, and which they raise consistently. My colleagues and I in the Department are doing a piece of work in relation to this and we intend to get a paper to the Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform this month to try...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Update on Key Issues: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (24 Jan 2024)
Simon Harris: On the research question, we will have TU Research and Innovation Supporting Enterprise, RISE, funding next month as well. That is specifically investment in research, and the technological universities in the south east will benefit from it. Teacher training centres and initial teacher education is a policy matter for the Department of Education, but I will seek the views of the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Update on Key Issues: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (24 Jan 2024)
Simon Harris: It is. I thank the Deputy. He has raised this issue with me a couple of times. He raised it when we discussed the HEA Bill, as it was then, through this committee. On the Deputy's recommendation, we strengthened the law around the role for the HEA in the promotion of the Irish language. There is a very strong provision in the legislation on the specific responsibility of the HEA to...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Update on Key Issues: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (24 Jan 2024)
Simon Harris: They are all very fair questions. First, I acknowledge, as it is a statement of fact, that of all the technological universities, the only one that has ever built student accommodation, albeit in its former institute of technology construct, is what was WIT. I say that regularly as I go around the country because it is a proof of concept. The process is now as I have set out. I now have a...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Update on Key Issues: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (24 Jan 2024)
Simon Harris: The Deputy should let me come back to him with a little bit more specificity but this is very active at the moment. I know the time sensitivity of it. I also want to acknowledge the Waterford Crystal site. It is another thing which some people in Waterford at a political level said we would never purchase. We did and I thank the Deputy for his work with us on that. My understanding is...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Update on Key Issues: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (24 Jan 2024)
Simon Harris: They are both of a similar timeline. We ran two expressions of interest processes in the sector, one around healthcare places, which included pharmacy, and one around veterinary places - myself and the Minister, Deputy Donnelly, in the case of healthcare and myself and the Minister, Deputy McConalogue, in the case of veterinary. We are now preparing our submissions to the capital review...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Update on Key Issues: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (24 Jan 2024)
Simon Harris: Two thirds are owned privately and one third is owned by the colleges.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Update on Key Issues: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (24 Jan 2024)
Simon Harris: I would not have the knowledge on that but two thirds are not owned by the colleges and are in private hands.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Update on Key Issues: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (24 Jan 2024)
Simon Harris: Not being funny but because they are private, I would not have a database of their ownership status. I am sure it is available but it is not necessarily in my Department. Certainly, a third of the 48,000 of these places are owned by the colleges and I can provide the Deputy with a breakdown of that and where they are. Two thirds are owned privately.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Update on Key Issues: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (24 Jan 2024)
Simon Harris: I can indeed. Can the Deputy send me the details, please, so that I can understand where the person was renting a room-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Update on Key Issues: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (24 Jan 2024)
Simon Harris: -----in their home.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Update on Key Issues: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (24 Jan 2024)
Simon Harris: And were applying for a SUSI grant.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Update on Key Issues: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (24 Jan 2024)
Simon Harris: And were refused a SUSI-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Update on Key Issues: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (24 Jan 2024)
Simon Harris: One does not require to have a tenancy agreement.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Update on Key Issues: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (24 Jan 2024)
Simon Harris: Yes-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Update on Key Issues: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (24 Jan 2024)
Simon Harris: I will be happy to get clarity and to come back to the Deputy.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Update on Key Issues: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (24 Jan 2024)
Simon Harris: No.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Update on Key Issues: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (24 Jan 2024)
Simon Harris: I am hoping that is a typo. We might need to do some more classes-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Update on Key Issues: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (24 Jan 2024)
Simon Harris: Sure.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Update on Key Issues: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (24 Jan 2024)
Simon Harris: I do not have a breakdown by ETB with me but I can get one for the Deputy. Nationally the number of people doing PLC courses is up-----