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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Education (9 Sep 2020)

Bernard Durkan: 219. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans for the development of an enhanced polytechnic equivalent here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22972/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Priorities (9 Sep 2020)

Bernard Durkan: 220. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the role he sees for the further and higher education, research, innovation and science sectors; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22973/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Education (9 Sep 2020)

Bernard Durkan: 221. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his ambition for the development of a ready supply of graduates specialising in research in the future; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22974/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (9 Sep 2020)

Bernard Durkan: 222. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which challenges arising in the course of the Covid-19 crisis have identified the need for specific educational response at third and fourth level; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22975/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Higher Education Institutions (9 Sep 2020)

Bernard Durkan: 223. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the degree to which the higher level education sector is in discussion with business and enterprise with a view to matching requirements in the workplace with suitable graduates; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22976/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Higher Education Institutions (9 Sep 2020)

Bernard Durkan: 224. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which he has identified the areas in which most opportunities are likely to arise for graduates throughout the various employment sectors in both the public and private sectors; if he has received indications showing specific requirements; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22977/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Higher Education Institutions (9 Sep 2020)

Bernard Durkan: 226. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps needed in the higher educational sector to ensure an adequate supply of suitably qualified personnel to ensure the attainment of the highest number of employment positions at home and abroad; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22979/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Higher Education Institutions (9 Sep 2020)

Bernard Durkan: 227. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which adequate college places remain available to meet the requirements of a changing workplace; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22980/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Higher Education Institutions (9 Sep 2020)

Bernard Durkan: 225. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the areas in the higher education sector likely to be in most need of adapting to new challenges with particular reference to the scientific, innovation and research sectors meeting requirements now and in the future; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22978/20]

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Legislative Framework Underpinning the State's Response (9 Sep 2020)

Bernard Durkan: Like other members, I thank the witnesses for addressing the committee and giving of their time. Unlike three other members who have spoken, I am not a lawyer. Rather, I am a layman and my interpretation of the rules and regulations may be slightly different from theirs. In the first instance, my belief is that guidelines are only guidelines and have no legal effect unless they are...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Legislative Framework Underpinning the State's Response (9 Sep 2020)

Bernard Durkan: I thank the Chairman and I welcome the witnesses. I have a couple of questions. I have no legal expertise so I speak as a lay person. To what extent do the witnesses believe that people use their own common sense in determining what is best at a particular time in the context of the Covid pandemic? Is it reliable? I suggest that it is not and that recent events, particularly those in the...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Legislative Framework Underpinning the State's Response (9 Sep 2020)

Bernard Durkan: I am only going to use five minutes anyway so-----

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Legislative Framework Underpinning the State's Response (9 Sep 2020)

Bernard Durkan: Whosoever wishes to respond. I am willing to entertain answers from all and sundry.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Legislative Framework Underpinning the State's Response (9 Sep 2020)

Bernard Durkan: I have no wish to become part of the advertising campaign but there is an advertisement on television which says that if we leave children to their devices, they might never leave their devices. It is an interesting advertisement. I agree that if we leave it to the common sense of people to make up their minds, they generally might make up their minds in favour of what suits their objects...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Human Rights and Civil Liberty Considerations (9 Sep 2020)

Bernard Durkan: I will take five, please. I welcome the witnesses and thank them for their attendance and opening statements. It is generally accepted that certain intrusions into human rights and civil liberties took place as a result of restrictions introduced for a particular purpose. On balance were the measures taken necessary and did they do the job they were intended to do, that is, curtail the...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Human Rights and Civil Liberty Considerations (9 Sep 2020)

Bernard Durkan: It is four.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Crime Data (10 Sep 2020)

Bernard Durkan: 12. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the levels of reported crime in each category throughout the past 12 months with particular reference to the extent to which the Covid-19 crisis has impacted on the justice system; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22807/20]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Crime Data (10 Sep 2020)

Bernard Durkan: 191. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of crimes reported in County Kildare on a monthly basis for the past 12 months by category; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23248/20]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Crime Data (10 Sep 2020)

Bernard Durkan: 193. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the extent to which noticeable increases and decreases in various crime categories have occurred in County Kildare in the past 12 months; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23250/20]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Crime Data (10 Sep 2020)

Bernard Durkan: 194. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the various categories of crimes in respect of which increases or decreases have been noted in the past 12 months throughout the country; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23251/20]