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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Ireland's Skills Needs: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Nov 2018)

Kevin Humphreys: I do not expect that but I would be grateful if Ms Dunne would revert to me on that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Ireland's Skills Needs: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Nov 2018)

Kevin Humphreys: I ask to get my questions finished. Ms Dunne touched on one regarding adequate housing. While the WRC has responsibility for the checks, what checks have ever been carried out on accommodation? What is the definition of "adequate accommodation"? What about education? Part of the pilot scheme involves English classes. To what level do those go and who provides them? Who is monitoring...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Ireland's Skills Needs: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Nov 2018)

Kevin Humphreys: There is a contradiction. The commission has told my office following inquiries that it only reacts to a complaint and it did not have any records of an inspection of English language provision or accommodation. There is a mix-up between offices as we have two different answers.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Ireland's Skills Needs: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Nov 2018)

Kevin Humphreys: Could the committee be provided with the information on the number of inspections? That would be helpful.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Ireland's Skills Needs: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Nov 2018)

Kevin Humphreys: I thank the Chairman.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Ireland's Skills Needs: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Nov 2018)

Kevin Humphreys: That is important but the other element that needs to be tracked is the value to society. Mr. Brownlee is talking about the tracking to the individual and the graduate, which is very important but there is also a benefit to society and, compared with investment in a graduate who gets the premium, less money is invested in an apprentice which is not valued against the outcome for society. We...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Ireland's Skills Needs: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Nov 2018)

Kevin Humphreys: There are supports for that. It is retention in career path. It is one thing starting a job at €22,000, €27,500 or €29,500 but the person has to see where they will be in 15 years. A person will not physically be able to do the work of boning in their late 30s. It is a young man's game but the salary does not treat it as a young man's game.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Ireland's Skills Needs: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Nov 2018)

Kevin Humphreys: I congratulate both of our witnesses. I am sorry for delaying them, given it has probably been my questions that have kept them here late. On a question to Mr. Power, the hospitality sector is obviously physically gruelling and many people do not stay long after their mid-30s, especially with the unsociable hours and so on. Did he find there were financial barriers to going back to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Ireland's Skills Needs: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Nov 2018)

Kevin Humphreys: If Mr. Power does not mind me asking, what age did he leave school?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Ireland's Skills Needs: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Nov 2018)

Kevin Humphreys: I believe there should be a kind of educational voucher that an early schoolleaver can cash in at a later stage of life. They should be able to say: "I did not cost the State by going to college but at some stage I can cash in my educational voucher to possibly increase my wage." If there was that type of voucher system which someone could cash in to a value of €4,000 or...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Ireland's Skills Needs: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Nov 2018)

Kevin Humphreys: It is a conversation piece. In the building and construction sector, the hospitality sector and several other sectors, people can earn reasonably good money up to a point, but when a family comes along or people are physically not able to continue, they find they cannot go forward because they cannot afford education, and they find themselves unemployed and unable to earn a reasonable income...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Ireland's Skills Needs: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Nov 2018)

Kevin Humphreys: They felt stuck.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Ireland's Skills Needs: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Nov 2018)

Kevin Humphreys: I could talk about the Senator in that scenario.

Seanad: Order of Business (29 Nov 2018)

Kevin Humphreys: I thank the Members of the House who attended the information meeting on Alzheimer's and dementia in the audiovisual room. It is one of the hidden diseases and those affected do not get the support they should get. The simple ask of the group that presented is an additional eight advisers for dementia and Alzheimer's to be connected to the primary care centres. I would like to see the day...

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Dec 2018)

Kevin Humphreys: I follow the previous speaker's remarks on Grafton College, Portobello, where I attended the protest last night. It is disturbing to see language specialists who teach English as a foreign language being discarded so close to Christmas. They have been put in a position in which they do not know where the next euro will come from. Many of them are owed at least four weeks' salary and some...

Seanad: Annual National Transition Statement on Climate Action and Low Carbon Development: Statements (4 Dec 2018)

Kevin Humphreys: On a point of order, I ask the Chair to clarify if the statements that have been made on environment and climate change are under the Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Act 2015. If the statements are being made to be compliant with that Act, the Act is not being honoured in the statements that have been made here. If it is to fulfil the 2015 Act-----

Seanad: Annual National Transition Statement on Climate Action and Low Carbon Development: Statements (4 Dec 2018)

Kevin Humphreys: I believe the statements have been made to fulfil the statutory requirements of the legislation, but they do not.

Seanad: Annual National Transition Statement on Climate Action and Low Carbon Development: Statements (4 Dec 2018)

Kevin Humphreys: Is it not being done under the Act?

Seanad: Annual National Transition Statement on Climate Action and Low Carbon Development: Statements (4 Dec 2018)

Kevin Humphreys: Does that mean we will have statements under the Act at a later stage?

Seanad: Annual National Transition Statement on Climate Action and Low Carbon Development: Statements (4 Dec 2018)

Kevin Humphreys: They are either compliant with the Act or they are not. The speech-----