Results 361-380 of 583 for speaker:Jen Cummins

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (1 Jul 2025)

Jen Cummins: 516. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) was denied carer’s allowance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35593/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Student Visas (1 Jul 2025)

Jen Cummins: 558. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reasons for non-visa required international students having to show €6,665 in financial support to study in Ireland for an eight-month programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35436/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Student Visas (1 Jul 2025)

Jen Cummins: 559. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he is aware of the new requirement for non-visa required international students to show €6,665 in financial support to study in Ireland for an eight-month programme; the impact it will have on students accessing education here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35437/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (1 Jul 2025)

Jen Cummins: 865. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he is aware of the current proposal to split Erasmus+ into a standalone mobility programme and a skills chapter of the competitiveness fund; the Irish position on this; the discussions that have taken place on this; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35205/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (1 Jul 2025)

Jen Cummins: 884. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the completion percentages in apprenticeship courses at third level, in tabular form. [35974/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (1 Jul 2025)

Jen Cummins: 885. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the apprenticeship courses available at third level; and the number of apprentices enrolled, in tabular form. [35975/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (2 Jul 2025)

Jen Cummins: 239. To ask the Minister for Health the number of mental health patients currently receiving treatment in facilities in the United Kingdom funded by the HSE; the length of time each patient has been receiving such treatment; the total cost of these arrangements over the past 12 months; the reasons patients continue to be treated outside the State and whether there are any plans or strategies...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Education for Children with Special Educational Needs: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)

Jen Cummins: I thank the witnesses, especially the parents, for coming in. It is very difficult to come in to a committee. I am very new on this committee as well, so I still find it a little scary coming here. However, I am not talking about my personal experiences, whereas the witnesses are. I commend them on that. It is not right that they have to come in here and fight so hard for their children....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Education for Children with Special Educational Needs: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)

Jen Cummins: I thank the witnesses for their attendance and the overview provided. How will parents notify the NCSE that they need an additional space? Should they ring the NCSE? What happens? Will there be a social media campaign and maybe a campaign on the airwaves and television about that? We all know about that because we are here but I am not sure other parents know about that so how will the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Education for Children with Special Educational Needs: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)

Jen Cummins: Parents do not get circulars.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Education for Children with Special Educational Needs: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)

Jen Cummins: It might be easiest for me to set out all my questions. Take a situation where a child reaches 18 and should progress to the next stage but cannot for whatever reason and while the parent and the school are saying that, the NCSE is refusing that. That needs to be re-evaluated because the parents and schools should take precedence. Does the NCSE have a role in transport for children with...

Student Fees: Motion [Private Members] (8 Jul 2025)

Jen Cummins: Gabhaim buíochas le Sinn Féin as an rún seo a thabhairt. For the previous nine days or so, chaos and confusion has reigned. It has been an omnishambles of a will they, will they not? There have been three different proposals as to how putting the student contribution fee up by €1,000 might look. Fees will go up by €1,000, followed by discussions about a...

Student Fees: Motion [Private Members] (8 Jul 2025)

Jen Cummins: That is very welcome but words are one thing. We need action. I did not come in here to lecture the Minister, although I was a lecturer in DCU and as was my educational role previously, I will set some things out. Sometimes in this House, we forget what the rights of young people are. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights explicitly states that everyone has the right to education and...

Transparency for Supermarket Profits: Motion [Private Members] (9 Jul 2025)

Jen Cummins: In recent days, the Chamber has spoken about the cost of living and how it affects education. To provide the bigger picture of what the cost of living for families is at present, if we look at it through the lens of education, which in my opinion is the foundation for our society, we have voluntary contributions for schools because schools cannot afford to keep the heating on. Parents are...

Domestic, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence: Statements (10 Jul 2025)

Jen Cummins: In the 1990s, I worked in London at a domestic violence project to support Irish women in my job in a school completion programme. Every single year, we supported children who were growing up in families where domestic violence was an everyday occurrence. My doctoral research found that the number of young people who left school before the leaving certificate was due to violence in the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Pension Parity and Working Conditions for School Secretaries and Caretakers: Fórsa (10 Jul 2025)

Jen Cummins: I am delighted to have the witnesses here today. People may not know but I am a member of Fórsa. I was in the school completion programme branch for a very long time. I was delighted to be at the Fórsa education conference at the Easter break. We in the Social Democrats fully support this strike action. We need to be very clear here. There will be huge disruption but that is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Pension Parity and Working Conditions for School Secretaries and Caretakers: Fórsa (10 Jul 2025)

Jen Cummins: I wish the witnesses the best of luck. I hope it does not get to strike action, but in another way I hope it does because I think enough is enough. There is a point where people have tried everything they can and if this where it has to go, it is where it has to go. I do not want that for the witnesses and I know they do not want it either. However, it does need to be highlighted. I am...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Pension Parity and Working Conditions for School Secretaries and Caretakers: Fórsa (10 Jul 2025)

Jen Cummins: We do not need the historical reasons for it, although it would be good to put it into context; we need to know what the Department is going to do to rectify it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Proposed Redesignation of Schools for Children with Mild General Learning Disabilities: Principals of Special Schools (10 Jul 2025)

Jen Cummins: I am delighted that the witnesses are here today. I thank the other members of the committee for facilitating the invitation. I think it was in May that I visited Ms O'Neill's school for the first time. When I left on my bike I was kind of floating through Crumlin to come back here, thinking what a wonderful and safe place I had just visited. I saw the students there playing in the yard...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Proposed Redesignation of Schools for Children with Mild General Learning Disabilities: Principals of Special Schools (10 Jul 2025)

Jen Cummins: I am delighted that people have been able to engage. The whole point is that if people have knowledge, it means they have a full understanding of what is going on. Because the witnesses are working away nice and quietly and are busy doing what they are supposed to be doing, sometimes it is very difficult to promote this really good work. I am delighted they have had the opportunity to...