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- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2017 (Resumed)
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Revised) (16 May 2017) Thomas Byrne: Money is being spent on education and training, which is important. What is the position in regard to emphasising apprenticeships and traineeships at post-school level as opposed to PLC courses and general types of further education? Is there a plan there? Has the Minister set out any kind of a strategy on this?
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2017 (Resumed)
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Revised) (16 May 2017) Thomas Byrne: I know we will be having a full discussion about this later, and obviously it is part of this brief, grants to SOLAS, etc., but is the call for apprenticeships basically a matter of asking businesses or otherwise to come up with ideas for new categories of apprenticeship?
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2017 (Resumed)
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Revised) (16 May 2017) Thomas Byrne: This is obviously a key issue for third level funding. Subhead C4 addresses the general grant to the universities, the institutes of technology and other institutes of higher education. Could the Minister comment on the fact that this money is totally insufficient in terms of educating our young people? Is he satisfied with that and with the drop in the international rankings that has...
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2017 (Resumed)
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Revised) (16 May 2017) Thomas Byrne: It has been reported in the newspapers that the Minister has agreed to buy the greyhound track at Harold's Cross for approximately €23 million, or perhaps up to €28 million. I do not expect the Minister to talk about individual transactions, although if he can, all the better, because it is a lot of money. I want to make clear that we support the provision of schools and we...
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2017 (Resumed)
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Revised) (16 May 2017) Thomas Byrne: The Minister said the cost is one twentieth of the budget. Is that for this transaction on its own?
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2017 (Resumed)
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Revised) (16 May 2017) Thomas Byrne: That transaction is more than €20 million, according to newspaper reports.
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2017 (Resumed)
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Revised) (16 May 2017) Thomas Byrne: Is that transaction on its own going to double the land costs within the Department?
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2017 (Resumed)
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Revised) (16 May 2017) Thomas Byrne: One twentieth is about €25 million.
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2017 (Resumed)
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Revised) (16 May 2017) Thomas Byrne: This relates to the need for schools in Dublin city.
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2017 (Resumed)
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Revised) (16 May 2017) Thomas Byrne: I want to ask generally about the capital programme. When the Department provides a new school for an existing national or voluntary school that is in the ownership of a patron, what happens the ownership of the old school building or old school site if the original school has moved on? Is that something the Department takes an interest in or is it just left to the patron body to do what it...
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2017 (Resumed)
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Revised) (16 May 2017) Thomas Byrne: What about the deal done to take over the old property of the school?
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2017 (Resumed)
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Revised) (16 May 2017) Thomas Byrne: I heard of a case - I will not name the school because it is just talk - where one school is getting a new building on a new site. The rumour is that a hotel is moving in, although I cannot verify that. There should be some programme in the Department to examine this matter, because they all have a value. It would seem to me that if the Minister is providing a new school and a new site, as...
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2017 (Resumed)
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Revised) (16 May 2017) Thomas Byrne: Is it the case that a patron could profit from the Department of Education and Skills providing a new school building on a new site, if the Department is buying the site?
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2017 (Resumed)
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Revised) (16 May 2017) Thomas Byrne: The new site and building go to the patron eventually, is that right?
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2017 (Resumed)
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Revised) (16 May 2017) Thomas Byrne: Does the old site stay with the patron?
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2017 (Resumed)
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Revised) (16 May 2017) Thomas Byrne: That would represent a windfall for the patron.
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2017 (Resumed)
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Revised) (16 May 2017) Thomas Byrne: I can see that point if the patron provided the site originally or if a community group provided it on behalf of a patron, which can happen too. Should there not be some arrangement, however, simply to help replenish the coffers? If the State is going to provide a new school site and replace a school building, we should be asking the patron to sign over the existing building when all that...
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2017 (Resumed)
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Revised) (16 May 2017) Thomas Byrne: Are there examples of that?
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2017 (Resumed)
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Revised) (16 May 2017) Thomas Byrne: I was sceptical, but I actually think it was good.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (17 May 2017)
Thomas Byrne: Little old ladies getting their inheritance before they die is not fraud. They are afraid of their lives.