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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Education (21 Sep 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 299. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which an adequacy of third- and fourth-level educational places remain available to students in all areas throughout the country; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40928/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Education (21 Sep 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 301. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the degree to which adequate college places for students pursuing an academic career remain available in all areas throughout the country without exception; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40930/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Education (21 Sep 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 302. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which technical third-level places continue to be available in adequate numbers to meet the needs of the workforce; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40931/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Education (21 Sep 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 297. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the degree to which third-level education places remain available for students with special needs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40926/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Education (21 Sep 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 298. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which he and his Department continue to encourage cooperation between the education system and the labour market, with a view to meeting the needs of students and potential employers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40927/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Education (21 Sep 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 300. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which student accommodation requirements continue to be met in all areas throughout the country, with a view to ensuring the continued availability of suitable student accommodation at a reasonable cost; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40929/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Education (21 Sep 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 303. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which he continues to engage with the labour market, with a view to ensuring an adequate number of apprentices, with particular reference to the next academic year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40932/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Education (21 Sep 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 307. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which the educational needs of apprentices can be matched to the availability of instructors/lecturers in order to meet the requirements of the industry and apprentices in the shortest time possible; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40936/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Grant Payments (21 Sep 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 304. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which income qualification thresholds might be updated in respect of student SUSI grants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40933/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Education (21 Sep 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 305. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which the various academic lecturing posts are filled to the extent required to meet the needs of student in the forthcoming academic year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40934/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Education (21 Sep 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 306. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of lecturing posts, if any, yet to be filled in order to meet the needs of the current academic year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40935/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (26 Sep 2023)

Bernard Durkan: My question relates to the areas where the National Development Plan and the programme for Government might converge, or in some cases might not converge, leaving questions as to whether they might be advanced in line with the concerns of the local communities, where there is obviously continued activity to pursue these issues. Snags have occurred in the past regarding the programme for...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (26 Sep 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 10. To ask the Taoiseach when the next Cabinet committee on housing will next meet. [41349/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (26 Sep 2023)

Bernard Durkan: I have a query in respect of this issue. The Government's plans are having success. However, they are, unfortunately, too slow. They were quite successful in dealing with the population as it was four, five or ten years ago but in the present climate, we find that counties adjacent to Dublin city and county are having serious problems with a lack of emergency housing. We in County Kildare...

Children's Health Ireland - Patient safety concerns and reviews in paediatric orthopaedic surgical services: Statements, Questions and Answers (26 Sep 2023)

Bernard Durkan: It is sad that we find ourselves at this juncture again, particularly because there have been a number of tragedies in the health service over the past number of years. There was the cervical screening campaign. There were issues where results were misread or improperly read. There were a number of other peculiar procedures that took place in this country, where women were subjected to...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (27 Sep 2023)

Bernard Durkan: I apologise for being absent last night when the Topical Issue debate was due to deal with the issue I will now raise again, that of family legislation reform. I congratulate the Minister on her success to date and her intentions to carry out those reforms by the end of the year. I am asking today for a preliminary inquiry into the activities which are ongoing and which are to the distinct...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (Resumed): Ministers for Finance and Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform (27 Sep 2023)

Bernard Durkan: I thank the Ministers for attending and being so frank in outlining their budgetary proposals. We cannot ask them to elucidate much more at this stage, but we will strongly support what we have seen of the budgetary policy so far while being mindful of the needs arising from the cost of living and of the various sectors they referred to that may need treatment of a specific nature. If...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (Resumed): Ministers for Finance and Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform (27 Sep 2023)

Bernard Durkan: I further ask the extent to which it is expected to accelerate progress on the NDP, given the challenges that have appeared, the rate of progress in the past, specifically the recent past and the fact that people's expectations are greater now than they were, while recognising also that the cost of delivery has increased by virtue of various forms of inflation.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (Resumed): Ministers for Finance and Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform (27 Sep 2023)

Bernard Durkan: Will the Minister, Deputy McGrath, indicate the extent to which it might be expected to monitor the extent to which receipts from corporation profits tax come in and fund the economy in a way that can be linked with the need for reserves and savings in the event of perhaps another pandemic, a cyberattack or whatever the case may be that would impact the economy and the stability to deliver?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (Resumed): Ministers for Finance and Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform (27 Sep 2023)

Bernard Durkan: Chairman, may I ask one last question?