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- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Apr 2015)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Is that today?
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Apr 2015)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Is it the Minister or the unions that is in charge?
- Seanad: National Council for Special Education Inclusion Support Services: Statements (22 Apr 2015)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: National Council for Special Education Inclusion Support Services: Statements (22 Apr 2015)
Fidelma Healy Eames: It is great to have the Minister here in the Seanad. I concur with what Senator Mulcahy has said. I, too, enjoyed her presentation at the INTO conference and was quite touched by it. In terms of what the Minister has said in this debate about the new interim service, we could be on to something good if we do it right. About six weeks ago she headed off what was potentially a huge...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Future Funding of Higher Education: Expert Group (22 Apr 2015)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I welcome the delegates and apologise for missing the start of the meeting. We had the Minister for Education and Skills in the Seanad and I did not want to miss the opportunity to ask her questions. I very much liked Mr. Cassells's summary of the issues, particularly his outlining of four areas on which we should focus into the future. As other speakers noted, we have heard some of...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Future Funding of Higher Education: Expert Group (22 Apr 2015)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I am coming to the issue of employability. As Mr. Cassells said, practice opportunities are vital for graduates to build team-working and other skills on top of their qualifications. However, the internships being offered in many cases are not devised with the young person's development in mind and some of the participants end up feeling used and abused.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Future Funding of Higher Education: Expert Group (22 Apr 2015)
Fidelma Healy Eames: It is relevant to one of the areas identified by Mr. Cassells in his presentation.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Future Funding of Higher Education: Expert Group (22 Apr 2015)
Fidelma Healy Eames: We are looking at the future of the higher education system. I am wondering, in that context, whether we might have guidelines for employers offering internships in order that everybody will believe he or she is benefiting from them. A good internship is a fantastic experience for those involved. The Chairman might consider my next question to be a little off the point, but it is very...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Future Funding of Higher Education: Expert Group (22 Apr 2015)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Those are my four questions. I thank the Chair for her indulgence.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Future Funding of Higher Education: Expert Group (22 Apr 2015)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Hungary.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Future Funding of Higher Education: Expert Group (22 Apr 2015)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Is it the quality of teaching?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Future Funding of Higher Education: Expert Group (22 Apr 2015)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Future Funding of Higher Education: Expert Group (22 Apr 2015)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Mr. Cassells did not address the question of qualifications of the lecturers. When he spoke about professionalising them, is that what he meant?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Future Funding of Higher Education: Expert Group (22 Apr 2015)
Fidelma Healy Eames: The issue of the 18 year olds.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Future Funding of Higher Education: Expert Group (22 Apr 2015)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I was only referring to questions that were asked and have not been answered.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Future Funding of Higher Education: Expert Group (22 Apr 2015)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I wish to repeat my question on internships. Mr. Cassells spoke about the employability of graduates. Will he comment on guidelines on internships and the usefulness of them, and also on the fact that some young people drop out of college, but if there was communication to parents, perhaps fees would not be lost?
- Seanad: Order of Business (5 May 2015)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I support the need for an urgent debate on language schools as this situation is happening way too frequently. We are an embarrassment. It is totally unfair to the poor young people who spend their money this way. It is letting everybody down. Could the Leader arrange for the Minister for Education and Skills to come to the House to speak on this issue? It has gone on for many years....
- Seanad: Order of Business (5 May 2015)
Fidelma Healy Eames: As a person from the west, an area which badly needs jobs, I support everything about the IDA in terms of jobs but I would never support its intervention in respect of the sovereignty of the people in the democratic process. What is the Government's role regarding this man's abuse of his position? I would like to hear a reply to that question.
- Seanad: Order of Business (5 May 2015)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Diarmuid agus Gráinne.
- Seanad: Order of Business (5 May 2015)
Fidelma Healy Eames: On a point of information-----