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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Adult Education Provision (25 Feb 2025)

James Lawless: As the Deputy is aware, in March 2024, SIPTU and TUI, the unions representing tutors, agreed to a proposal to formally establish a new grade of adult educator with a standardised pay scale aligned with the Youthreach Resource Person grade. This scale has 13 points and two Long Service Increments. This proposal allows for incremental progression and a career path for tutors in the further...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Fees (25 Feb 2025)

James Lawless: The higher education tuition fee payable by a student can vary depending on a variety of factors including the type of course and the student's access route. The assessment of a student’s application and the determination of the appropriate fee rate is a function of the higher education institution attended as an autonomous body. Typically, two rates of fee, an EU Rate of Fee or a...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (27 Feb 2025)

James Lawless: 112. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection how he plans to deal with the very slow delivery of reimbursements from the humanitarian assistance scheme despite saying at the beginning it would take mere days. [7935/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (27 Feb 2025)

James Lawless: 138. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will offer rapid intervention on an urgent case of a person (details supplied) whose mobile home was entirely destroyed during storm Éowyn, thus deeming them homeless. [7936/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Budgets (27 Feb 2025)

James Lawless: My Department secured funding of €500,000 in Budget 2024 for Period Dignity initiatives. €250,000 of the funding went to Education and Training Boards (ETBs) and €250,000 went to publicly funded Higher Education Institutions (HEIs). This was part of wider Government efforts to break down barriers to access to higher and further education and specifically to ensure that no...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (27 Feb 2025)

James Lawless: National apprenticeship programmes are delivered through both on-the-job training with the employer and off-the-job training delivered in Educational Training boards (ETBs) or Higher Education Institutions (HEIs). Apprentice employers must adhere to an Apprenticeship Code of Practice, stipulating that employers must provide access for the apprentice to the appropriate equipment, tools...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Fees (27 Feb 2025)

James Lawless: I propose to take Questions Nos. 429 to 431, inclusive, together. The Deputy will be aware that the Annual Options Paper on Reducing the Cost of Education, as published last September (www.gov.ie/en/publication/db3c6-funding-the-future-an-annua l-options-paper-on-the-cost-of-higher-education-2024/), estimated costs of various options to reduce the cost of attending tertiary education,...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (26 Feb 2025)

James Lawless: 135. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on the progression of matters regarding the sign off on temporary accommodation for a school (details supplied) in order for the school to accommodate additional students due to the school being oversubscribed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8343/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Adult Education Provision (26 Feb 2025)

James Lawless: As the Deputy is aware, in March 2024, SIPTU and TUI, the unions representing tutors, agreed to a proposal to formally establish a new grade of adult educator with a standardised pay scale aligned with the Youthreach Resource Person grade. This scale has 13 points and two Long Service Increments. This proposal allows for incremental progression and a career path for tutors in the further...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Adult Education Provision (26 Feb 2025)

James Lawless: As the Deputy is aware, in March 2024, SIPTU and TUI, the unions representing tutors, agreed to a proposal to formally establish a new grade of adult educator with a standardised pay scale aligned with the Youthreach Resource Person grade. This scale has 13 points and two Long Service Increments. This proposal allows for incremental progression and a career path for tutors in the further...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Education (26 Feb 2025)

James Lawless: Graduate entry medicine (GEM) is a pathway for degree holders who want to pursue a medical career on an accelerated four-year programme. Students pursuing GEM programmes do so as second degree courses and consequently are not eligible for free fees funding. They are also not eligible for funding under the Student Grant Scheme as they do not meet the progression criteria of the Scheme. ...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Fees (26 Feb 2025)

James Lawless: Under the Free Fees Initiative (FFI) the State provides funding, exclusive of the student contribution, toward the tuition fee costs of eligible undergraduate higher education students who are pursuing approved full-time undergraduate courses of study in an approved higher education institution in the State. The balance of the fee cost is met by the student via a student contribution which...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Mar 2025)

James Lawless: You want the veto.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Further and Higher Education (5 Mar 2025)

James Lawless: It is good to see the Acting Chair, Senator Rabbitte, back in office. This is the first opportunity I have had to engage with Senator Lynch. I congratulate her on her election. I look forward to working with her and other Members of the Upper House on many matters, particularly those relating to my brief. I thank Senator Lynch for raising this important issue. As I know she is very...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Further and Higher Education (5 Mar 2025)

James Lawless: I thank the Senator for the invite. I may well take her up on that at some stage when I am next in the area. I visited Cork ETB last Friday and discussed a range of areas, including plans at Carrigaline and other places where it has ambition. I share and support its ambitions, no less so in Macroom. There are some steps to go through as regards the proposed site, namely, value for money,...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (5 Mar 2025)

James Lawless: I wish to thank the Deputy for her question. The matter raised by the Deputy relates to an individual who worked for a number of years under several short-term contracts with the Higher Education Institution (HEI) in question, before moving to a Contract of Indefinite Duration in 2017. A divergence of opinion appears to have arisen thereafter as to whether the role was classified as an...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (5 Mar 2025)

James Lawless: The Deputy may be aware that the institution to which she refers is not funded by my Department. It does however, receive some targeted funding from the Department of Education. Budget 2025 contains a package of measures to support households with the cost of education. These measures include a €1,000 reduction in the student contribution fee for higher education students that are...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Bodies (5 Mar 2025)

James Lawless: I would like to thank Deputy Geoghegan for his question. The Higher Education Authority (HEA) receives funding for a number of programmes from the National Training Fund (NTF). Funding provided for the last three years is as follows: HEA NTF Funded Programmes 2022 Out-turn 2023 Out-turn 2024 Out-turn €000 ...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Inniúlacht sa Ghaeilge sa Státseirbhís (5 Mar 2025)

James Lawless: Líon na foirne reatha i mo Roinn ná 301. Tacaíonn an Roinn lena foireann chun a gcuid scileanna Gaeilge a fhorbairt trí rannpháirtíocht sa Ghaeilge Ghairmiúil a spreagadh trí Ghaelchultur, a chuireann oiliúint ar fáil don tseirbhís phoiblí. Maoiníonn an Roinn oiliúint na foirne trína haonad Foghlama agus Forbartha....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (5 Mar 2025)

James Lawless: Rathmines College of Further Education (under City of Dublin ETB) is located within Rathmines Town Hall. Rathmines College of Further Education enrols over 700 full time daytime students and approximately 600 part-time and evening students each year. My Department understands that City of Dublin ETB is currently undertaking a conservation study of Rathmines Town Hall, which it leases from...