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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: North-South Student Mobility: Discussion (13 Feb 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: On behalf of the committee, I welcome Professor Ciarán Ó hÓgartaigh, president of the University of Galway who is representing Universities Ireland, Mr. Lewis Purser, director of learning, teacher and academic affairs, Irish Universities Association and Mr. Paul Hannigan, head of college, Atlantic Technological University, ATU, who is representing the Technological Higher...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: North-South Student Mobility: Discussion (13 Feb 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: We have gone slightly over time. I ask Professor Ó hÓgartaigh to briefly address his remaining points.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: North-South Student Mobility: Discussion (13 Feb 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I thank the professor. I invite Mr. Purser to make his opening statement.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: North-South Student Mobility: Discussion (13 Feb 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I thank Mr. Purser. I turn next to Mr. Hannigan, who is representing THEA.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: North-South Student Mobility: Discussion (13 Feb 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I thank the witnesses for their opening statements. The first member of the committee I will invite to speak is Deputy O'Callaghan.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: North-South Student Mobility: Discussion (13 Feb 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Yes, as long as it is acceptable to the other members of the committee.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: North-South Student Mobility: Discussion (13 Feb 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I thank the Senator. Which witness wishes to address these questions first?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: North-South Student Mobility: Discussion (13 Feb 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: On a point of information, the Chair wrote to the Tánaiste on behalf of the committee asking that tertiary education be included as an issue for the North-South Ministerial Council. The response was that, while there were no plans for that currently, we had an executive back up and running in Stormont in the interim, which is the critical part. Mr. Purser has recovered.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: North-South Student Mobility: Discussion (13 Feb 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Deputy Clarke may make a brief point.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: North-South Student Mobility: Discussion (13 Feb 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Professor Ó hÓgartaigh wanted to come in on the previous question. I will call him first and then go back to the people in the room.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: North-South Student Mobility: Discussion (13 Feb 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: We have had a very useful session and covered a lot of ground. I had a list of questions written down but other committee members have raised many of them already. I am surprised by the figure that 173 people from the North are coming here to do level 8 courses, whatever about travel in the other direction. We talk about asymmetric flows. When one uses the word "flow" of course one...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: North-South Student Mobility: Discussion (13 Feb 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: That is a very welcome commitment.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: North-South Student Mobility: Discussion (13 Feb 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: We should clarify whether there is a problem.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: North-South Student Mobility: Discussion (13 Feb 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: If there is a problem, we should certainly take steps.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: North-South Student Mobility: Discussion (13 Feb 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Will an access officer be able to offer a medical diagnosis?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: North-South Student Mobility: Discussion (13 Feb 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Yes. I know that once a person turns 18, it is extremely difficult to access a diagnosis. That issue was teased out by the Joint Committee on Autism. If somebody has a pre-existing diagnosis from another jurisdiction-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: North-South Student Mobility: Discussion (13 Feb 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: -----we should short-circuit that entire process by recognising that diagnosis.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: North-South Student Mobility: Discussion (13 Feb 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: On further education, the witnesses identified that the HEA and SOLAS are engaged on a cross-Border basis. Springboard, the human capital initiative and Skillnet are not operating in a cross-Border way. I do not know if there are comparable bodies in the North. We have made changes to the CAO process in that we now have a new tier through which people can make applications for further...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: North-South Student Mobility: Discussion (13 Feb 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I was very struck by something Mr. Hannigan said earlier and I wrote it down, namely, that if we want to talk about an all-island economy, we should also be talking about all-island human resources and that the population of the island should be taken on first.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: North-South Student Mobility: Discussion (13 Feb 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Mr. Andrew Brownlee, the CEO of SOLAS will appear before the committee on 27 February to discuss this issue. That meeting will be an opportunity to explore this matter further. I thank the witnesses for appearing before us and sharing their expert knowledge and insight. We have had a very worthwhile discussion. I hope we will see, following the re-establishment of Stormont, significant...