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Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (Revised) (4 Mar 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: They went to the institutions but that sum was offset by how much they got from the Department.

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (Revised) (4 Mar 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: That is the way it has been for many years. There was a corresponding reduction in what they got from the Department. On the technological universities, I would disagree with Deputy Jonathan O'Brien's point about the south east. While the situation is difficult, Mr. Michael Kelly is leading a consultation process. He has met not just the governing bodies but the various stakeholders in the...

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (Revised) (4 Mar 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: That is all the more reason we need to stand up to the challenges. We need to challenge people in the institutions to step up to the plate and put the interests of their students and the region to the fore. We need to see progress on it.

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (Revised) (4 Mar 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: The problem I have with the matter is that there seems to be a suggestion that somebody will make it happen for them. They have to make it happen for themselves.

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (Revised) (4 Mar 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: They have to engage in the process. They have to want it and they will have to do a certain amount of work themselves. Very clear criteria were laid down at the start of the process. The institutions in three parts of the country that decided to engage in the process did so knowing the criteria they had to reach, knowing that merger was part of it, knowing that they had to reach a certain...

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (Revised) (4 Mar 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: I would strongly encourage them.

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (Revised) (4 Mar 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: That is clear. That is one of the criteria they have to reach.

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (Revised) (4 Mar 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: To answer the Chair's question, we expect to publish it during the next term and we hope to have it enacted by mid-2015, but that depends on how quickly it can proceed.

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (Revised) (4 Mar 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: Yes.

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (Revised) (4 Mar 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: As the Deputy knows, the proposed Munster technological university has got beyond the stage the south east has not yet reached. There is a requirement on the institutes to ensure they work together on the merger to move on to the next stage. The HEA is directly engaged with them, and the Deputy mentioned Mr. Tom Boland. We are keeping a watch on it in the Department and we want to ensure...

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (Revised) (4 Mar 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: -----and with the HEA. The issue in the south east is of greater concern, but again there has to be an engagement and consultation within and between the institutions to make this happen. Again I would encourage them to do that.

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (Revised) (4 Mar 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: As I said to the Deputy during Question Time yesterday, they said from the beginning that they would be able to do this part within their own resources. I would encourage the institutions to engage with their community to ensure they explain how this will happen.

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (Revised) (4 Mar 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: The figure for emergency capital is €12.9 million in 2014.

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (Revised) (4 Mar 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: That was expenditure. On Deputy Keating's general point about older schools, when the five year building programme was announced, and I recall the former Minister, Deputy Quinn, saying that he did not want any child to be looking out at a field instead of a classroom, the big pressure was demographics. It was to make sure that every child had a classroom to go to. That is why the vast...

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (Revised) (4 Mar 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: We hope to announce the next five year building programme around the middle of this year.

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (Revised) (4 Mar 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: It will be a completely new programme starting in the beginning of 2016. We are always looking for money so if there is any stimulus money we will look for more funding for capital for this year. We have announced our current capital programme for this year, which included those 70 schools, but we will always chase after any money that might become available. If we do get money, we will...

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (Revised) (4 Mar 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: I believe it is about three years. I have been told that if it is more than three years, we will buy it. We can get further clarification on that if the Deputy needs it.

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (Revised) (4 Mar 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: On the minor works scheme, the normal practice is for that to be announced later in the year. It is funded from money we find later in the year, so I would not be putting in the amount now. I would hope to find it later in the year. That is as much as I can say on that at this point. With regard to the summer works scheme, the time is approaching when, if we are going to announce a...

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (Revised) (4 Mar 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: -----me under pressure on that one.

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (Revised) (4 Mar 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: We are not ready for any announcement yet. I cannot tell the Deputy one way or the other whether there will be an announcement, but we are trying to find some money for that. Obviously, because we have to have time to organise the works, there is a fairly short timeframe.