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Seanad: Order of Business (20 Jan 2016)

Jim D'Arcy: There are other people in other Houses getting a lot more time to talk about this.

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Jan 2016)

Jim D'Arcy: I am praising these people.

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Jan 2016)

Jim D'Arcy: Louth County Council will resolve this issue in the best interests of the Travellers and we do not need ghost politicians floating in and out for photo opportunities.

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Jan 2016)

Jim D'Arcy: The Tara Education Centre has educated many Travellers over recent years. I met the centre's former director, Mary Connolly, who performed Trojan work-----

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Jan 2016)

Jim D'Arcy: I repeat that we do not need ghost politicians-----

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Jan 2016)

Jim D'Arcy: -----coming in for photo opportunities and making political capital out of this issue.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Quality of Teaching in Higher Education: Discussion (20 Jan 2016)

Jim D'Arcy: I taught for 35 years but I never reached a plateau. Unfortunately, I struggled but I did my best.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Quality of Teaching in Higher Education: Discussion (20 Jan 2016)

Jim D'Arcy: I thank the Chairman. The word "education" is derived from the Latin term educo, which means to lead out, which is the task for anyone who is a teacher or lecturer. One is an educator and as such one must be able to communicate. Looking back through the mists of time I recall some of my lecturers. One was John Killeen and another was Michael Jordan, who was an amazing man and Neil...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Quality of Teaching in Higher Education: Discussion (20 Jan 2016)

Jim D'Arcy: I mean if one pays for education then one should get a good product.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Quality of Teaching in Higher Education: Discussion (20 Jan 2016)

Jim D'Arcy: I am not saying one should get a higher standard because maybe one already has that. I am saying that one is entitled to a high standard. Dr. Foley has said that young people today are lazy, inattentive and very difficult to deal with. The other day I read some material that claimed the same but it was written in 400 BC by a man called Plato. If young people have continued to deteriorate...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Quality of Teaching in Higher Education: Discussion (20 Jan 2016)

Jim D'Arcy: Yes. James Stephens wrote in his book entitledThe Crock of Gold that "Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more". He was referring particularly to the Corrigans of Carlow. As those present might know, Illich said-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Quality of Teaching in Higher Education: Discussion (20 Jan 2016)

Jim D'Arcy: How did the Senator know? Ivan Illich said that the aim of all educators is to make themselves redundant and to be disgraced by the knowledge of their students. One thing I am saying is that there is a role for some type of quality assessment of the level of educational skills of university teaching and lecturing staff.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Quality of Teaching in Higher Education: Discussion (20 Jan 2016)

Jim D'Arcy: I am not talking about that at all. That is not what I meant at all.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Quality of Teaching in Higher Education: Discussion (20 Jan 2016)

Jim D'Arcy: That is not what I meant at all. It has nothing to do with what I was saying.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Quality of Teaching in Higher Education: Discussion (20 Jan 2016)

Jim D'Arcy: I will explain what I was actually saying. I accept that the quality of the learning experience is tied in with the quality of the teaching. I am specifically talking about the educators themselves. I am not talking about the relationship in the first instance. The relationship is a fortiori. I am talking about discrete forms of communication and I am not contradicting what was said...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Quality of Teaching in Higher Education: Discussion (20 Jan 2016)

Jim D'Arcy: -----should be gone.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Quality of Teaching in Higher Education: Discussion (20 Jan 2016)

Jim D'Arcy: That is the end of the story. It should be gone.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Quality of Teaching in Higher Education: Discussion (20 Jan 2016)

Jim D'Arcy: Worse again.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Quality of Teaching in Higher Education: Discussion (20 Jan 2016)

Jim D'Arcy: I thank Senator Craughwell for letting me speak.

Seanad: Death of Former Member: Expressions of Sympathy (27 Jan 2016)

Jim D'Arcy: I can remember vividly attending the first production of "Dancing at Lughnasa" in the Abbey Theatre and the impression it made on me. I was attending with my then new wife. Even today the play is still in my mind. We are talking about the transience of life and the permanence of art. It is said that Brian Friel was greatly influenced by Chekhov. In "The Circus Animals' Desertion" Yeats...