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- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Jobseeker's Benefit Eligibility (23 Oct 2018)
Thomas Byrne: 663. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide a copy of the report into the entitlements and rights of seasonal and part-time workers to obtain jobseeker's benefit once their part-time work ceases; if her attention has been drawn to the fact that the changes made in 2011 and 2012 to the terms and conditions of eligibility for jobseeker's benefit...
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Disability Allowance Payments (23 Oct 2018)
Thomas Byrne: 652. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a claim for disability allowance by a person (details supplied) was stopped. [43782/18]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Business of Joint Committee (23 Oct 2018)
Thomas Byrne: Deputy O'Loughlin will be here in a few moments. I remind members to turn off their mobile phones. We have received apologies from Deputy McLoughlin.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Effectiveness and Timeliness of Consent Classes provided in Third-Level Institutions: Discussion (23 Oct 2018)
Thomas Byrne: I thank everybody for their simple, concise and effective presentations. I noted that neither the USI nor Dr. Saidléar of the RCNI mentioned the SMART programme in Galway. I understand it was originally funded by Rape Crisis Network Ireland.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Effectiveness and Timeliness of Consent Classes provided in Third-Level Institutions: Discussion (23 Oct 2018)
Thomas Byrne: Initially.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Effectiveness and Timeliness of Consent Classes provided in Third-Level Institutions: Discussion (23 Oct 2018)
Thomas Byrne: Okay.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Effectiveness and Timeliness of Consent Classes provided in Third-Level Institutions: Discussion (23 Oct 2018)
Thomas Byrne: I ask other the witnesses to comment on the Galway initiative. Is it the gold standard in this country for consent at third level? What are the ongoing funding requirements of that initiative? What can it do with the funding it has? Can any of its research be applied to second level? I understand the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment is doing some work in that regard. Ms...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Effectiveness and Timeliness of Consent Classes provided in Third-Level Institutions: Discussion (23 Oct 2018)
Thomas Byrne: I accept what Mr. Crosby says - it is very reasonable - but what if resources were limited and we wanted to ensure that this was done? If NUIG is rolling out the programme nationwide, do we decide that the funding should go to NUIG, which can then take the lead on the programme, or do we decide that every college can do this? We do not really have an NCCA, a centralised curriculum body, at...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Effectiveness and Timeliness of Consent Classes provided in Third-Level Institutions: Discussion (23 Oct 2018)
Thomas Byrne: On that point-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Effectiveness and Timeliness of Consent Classes provided in Third-Level Institutions: Discussion (23 Oct 2018)
Thomas Byrne: There are only two of us left, so I will not delay proceedings. Have any of the five witnesses or their organisations, apart from Mr. Crosby, been contacted by the NCCA on this review of RSE? I do not need to know the-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Effectiveness and Timeliness of Consent Classes provided in Third-Level Institutions: Discussion (23 Oct 2018)
Thomas Byrne: Has Dr. MacNeela?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Effectiveness and Timeliness of Consent Classes provided in Third-Level Institutions: Discussion (23 Oct 2018)
Thomas Byrne: Was that a two-way process?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Effectiveness and Timeliness of Consent Classes provided in Third-Level Institutions: Discussion (23 Oct 2018)
Thomas Byrne: We will be under pressure to leave for the Dáil in the next ten minutes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Effectiveness and Timeliness of Consent Classes provided in Third-Level Institutions: Discussion (23 Oct 2018)
Thomas Byrne: None of us might be left by then.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Effectiveness and Timeliness of Consent Classes provided in Third-Level Institutions: Discussion (23 Oct 2018)
Thomas Byrne: We might be as well to conclude now.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Effectiveness and Timeliness of Consent Classes provided in Third-Level Institutions: Discussion (23 Oct 2018)
Thomas Byrne: And around the roles of men and women.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Effectiveness and Timeliness of Consent Classes provided in Third-Level Institutions: Discussion (23 Oct 2018)
Thomas Byrne: It is, but it is not one we accept. If there is a-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Effectiveness and Timeliness of Consent Classes provided in Third-Level Institutions: Discussion (23 Oct 2018)
Thomas Byrne: Okay.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Effectiveness and Timeliness of Consent Classes provided in Third-Level Institutions: Discussion (23 Oct 2018)
Thomas Byrne: Has there been good interaction?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Effectiveness and Timeliness of Consent Classes provided in Third-Level Institutions: Discussion (23 Oct 2018)
Thomas Byrne: I accept and know that, but what about the engagement between USI and the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment? The NCCA works at second level, while the USI is a third level body, but the two organisations know a lot about this matter.