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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Current and Future Plans for Further and Higher Education: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (9 Oct 2024)

Mairéad Farrell: I welcome the investment 100%.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Current and Future Plans for Further and Higher Education: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (9 Oct 2024)

Mairéad Farrell: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Current and Future Plans for Further and Higher Education: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (9 Oct 2024)

Mairéad Farrell: I welcome the €77.4 million. Any investment or apprenticeship is important. I welcome that more trainers have been recruited. I have seen the figures on that, but it confuses me that we are talking about 6,500 craft registrations in 2023 and then 6,800 in 2025. I do not think that shows ambition. Any way, I only have two minutes left.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Current and Future Plans for Further and Higher Education: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (9 Oct 2024)

Mairéad Farrell: I did not talk about the consortia ones, but I am talking about-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Current and Future Plans for Further and Higher Education: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (9 Oct 2024)

Mairéad Farrell: I am talking about craft registrations because these are the people who want to build the homes we need. I welcome people doing all different types of apprenticeships, but to be honest I think it is a bit mad that we are talking about 6,500 craft registrations in 2023. Then the Ministers on the day of the budget start talking about 6,800 registrations as if this is massive growth. I turn...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Current and Future Plans for Further and Higher Education: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (9 Oct 2024)

Mairéad Farrell: But the TUs-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Current and Future Plans for Further and Higher Education: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (9 Oct 2024)

Mairéad Farrell: If it is off balance sheet there is a mechanism.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Current and Future Plans for Further and Higher Education: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (9 Oct 2024)

Mairéad Farrell: I totally get that it is not without its complications. The Minister is saying everything is on the table, but in order for that borrowing for TU student accommodation to be moved off balance sheet, there is a process, and that process takes time.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Current and Future Plans for Further and Higher Education: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (9 Oct 2024)

Mairéad Farrell: Has that process started, or has it not started?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Current and Future Plans for Further and Higher Education: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (9 Oct 2024)

Mairéad Farrell: To what level?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Current and Future Plans for Further and Higher Education: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (9 Oct 2024)

Mairéad Farrell: Absolutely, it is literally beside my estate, but that is not really the question I have. I am trying to figure something out here. I could be wrong, but is it not that the review has to be done by the CSO and it then goes to Eurostat? Is that not the way it works? What stage is it at?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Current and Future Plans for Further and Higher Education: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (9 Oct 2024)

Mairéad Farrell: I totally get that but I am trying to figure out whether that process has started.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Current and Future Plans for Further and Higher Education: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (9 Oct 2024)

Mairéad Farrell: I am in no way clearer on that. Thanks.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Current and Future Plans for Further and Higher Education: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (9 Oct 2024)

Mairéad Farrell: I thank the Minister.

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (8 Oct 2024)

Mairéad Farrell: 24. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the support being provided to persons (details supplied) to assist them in being evacuated from Lebanon; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39902/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (8 Oct 2024)

Mairéad Farrell: 173. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if school bus tickets can be provided for two students (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39748/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (8 Oct 2024)

Mairéad Farrell: 182. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 188 of 24 September 2024, if this student can be offered a place on a school bus service (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39794/24]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Funding (8 Oct 2024)

Mairéad Farrell: 221. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the funding streams available for community groups that would support local cultural and physical activities, for example, a weekly dance that rents space from a local hotel. [39981/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (8 Oct 2024)

Mairéad Farrell: 306. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if babies born in December 2024 will also benefit from the €420 baby boost payment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39983/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Qualifications (8 Oct 2024)

Mairéad Farrell: 425. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he is aware of the situation where those who qualified with a four-year BA degree in children’s studies from the University of Galway, are not currently certified to work in the childcare sector; and if he will investigate this matter given the need to increase the numbers of childcare workers in the...