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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Technological Universities (1 Dec 2022)

Cathal Crowe: 111. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the development of the new campus of the Technological University of the Shannon: Midlands Midwest at Coonagh, County Limerick; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59486/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Accommodation (1 Dec 2022)

Cathal Crowe: 152. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide details of plans for any additional on-campus student accommodation to be built at the University of Limerick, the Technological University of the Shannon: Midlands Midwest and Mary Immaculate College, Limerick; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59487/22]

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 26 - Education (Supplementary)
Vote 45 - Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022)

Cathal Crowe: I am a little late as a few meetings are coinciding tonight. The Minister is always welcome to the committee, and I congratulate her on the continued good work of her Department. On budget day I was delighted to see €5 million secured by the Minister to provide a pilot scheme for in-school counselling support. I will speak on that for a moment. I was invited recently to Gaelscoil...

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 26 - Education (Supplementary)
Vote 45 - Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022)

Cathal Crowe: Will we be dealing with third level straight after this? That is my understanding.

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 26 - Education (Supplementary)
Vote 45 - Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022)

Cathal Crowe: That is fine.

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 26 - Education (Supplementary)
Vote 45 - Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022)

Cathal Crowe: I thank the Minister of State and I welcome him and his team to the committee this evening. I will put a few quick questions to him. The Minister, Deputy Harris, made a very positive announcement a few days ago about grasping the whole issue of third level accommodation. There is a university that is very well known to the Minister of State and me because we are not living too far apart....

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 26 - Education (Supplementary)
Vote 45 - Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022)

Cathal Crowe: That is fantastic. It would be great if someone could nudge it. The other matter is the TUS campus at Coonagh and the vacant units adjacent to the Tesco store. There were many announcements three or four years ago that a fabulous faculty would be developed there. Site fencing went up. Unless much activity is going on behind the scenes, there is little visible to the naked eye. As one...

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 26 - Education (Supplementary)
Vote 45 - Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022)

Cathal Crowe: Brilliant. That is really positive news.

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 26 - Education (Supplementary)
Vote 45 - Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022)

Cathal Crowe: I thank the Minister of State for leading that. The building has been an eyesore. Seeing new life going in there has been great. I have two final matters to raise. Quality and Qualifications Ireland, QQI, is proving difficult to deal with. I hold a weekly clinic with the Ukrainian population in my constituency. In the past month, two fully-qualified dentists have come to me. They are...

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 26 - Education (Supplementary)
Vote 45 - Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022)

Cathal Crowe: I thank the Minister of State.

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 26 - Education (Supplementary)
Vote 45 - Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022)

Cathal Crowe: My last question is about a matter that occasionally arises at my constituency office. It relates to the student hardship fund that all third level institutions administer. I attended the University of Limerick and Mary Immaculate College. I thought I understood how the fund worked. It certainly helped some of my friends over the years. They were able to avail of it. It got them out of...

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 26 - Education (Supplementary)
Vote 45 - Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022)

Cathal Crowe: That is good. I know people will say it is probably not enough, but that is multiple times higher than when I was in the third level system and helping people over the years. I thank the Minister of State. If his Department could communicate on the other matters, it would be welcome. I commend the Minister of State on pushing for a veterinary school in the mid-west. Far too many of our...

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (7 Dec 2022)

Cathal Crowe: You objected to some housing.

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 31 - Transport (Supplementary) (23 Nov 2022)

Cathal Crowe: I welcome the Minister of State and her team. I hope the Minister of State does not mind me asking who is on her team. It is a genuine question. We have had a lot of online sessions. This is only the second face-to-face meeting. I would like to know the names of everyone in the room.

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 31 - Transport (Supplementary) (23 Nov 2022)

Cathal Crowe: It is not a curveball question. It is just-----

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 31 - Transport (Supplementary) (23 Nov 2022)

Cathal Crowe: I thank the Minister of State. I am trying to join the dots. What was emailed to us this morning concerned several elements. It included the Minister of State's speech, which had a lot of content, and tables. I will hone in on the tables. Reference was made to public service obligations, PSOs. There was a budget heading of €23.8 million. I want to drill down on that figure....

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 31 - Transport (Supplementary) (23 Nov 2022)

Cathal Crowe: Forgive me, but the clock keeps ticking down.

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 31 - Transport (Supplementary) (23 Nov 2022)

Cathal Crowe: Comments can be made on local media. The Minister for Foreign Affairs, Deputy Coveney, was doorstepped a few weeks ago with a question on a PSO for Shannon Airport, to which he replied it might not happen. What is the Minister of State's perspective on the PSO application? Is it about to leave her Department positively and move to the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, is it...

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 31 - Transport (Supplementary) (23 Nov 2022)

Cathal Crowe: Is that separate to the national aviation policy review?

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 31 - Transport (Supplementary) (23 Nov 2022)

Cathal Crowe: I do not want to pre-empt what could be a positive process, but it should not lead to a two-tier aviation policy, if the Minister of State will pardon the expression, where national aviation policy deals with Dublin while the regional airports programme deals with other airports. I would like the two to run concurrently. There is merit in what she is doing and we need to develop a growth...