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- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Admissions (12 Jun 2025)
Paul Murphy: 165. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps she will take to ensure every child will have access to an appropriate school place in their local community this September. [30980/25]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Admissions (12 Jun 2025)
Paul Murphy: 173. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will guarantee that every child will have access to an appropriate school place in their local community this September. [30979/25]
- Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Engagement with Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (11 Jun 2025)
Paul Murphy: In his opening statement, the Minister said the lack of affordable accommodation is a big barrier for students attending tertiary education, and that is obviously correct. He is part of the Government that signed off on a plan yesterday that is going to make that crisis for students a lot worse. Arguably, students are the group that is hit hardest. Students who are in rental accommodation...
- Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Engagement with Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (11 Jun 2025)
Paul Murphy: Let me explain to you-----
- Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Engagement with Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (11 Jun 2025)
Paul Murphy: It is my time.
- Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Engagement with Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (11 Jun 2025)
Paul Murphy: Let me explain to the Minister how it will work and he can tell me if I am wrong.
- Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Engagement with Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (11 Jun 2025)
Paul Murphy: Yes, and he is a Government Minister and can tell me if it is wrong. There will be no rental protection for students who are in private rented accommodation every time they change tenancy. Let us say I am from Castlebar and I am going to college in Dublin. I rent from September until June or July. I will come back next September and I will not get any rent protection. My rent can be...
- Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Engagement with Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (11 Jun 2025)
Paul Murphy: Is the Minister saying the press statement issued by the Department of housing yesterday was inaccurate?
- Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Engagement with Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (11 Jun 2025)
Paul Murphy: The Minister stated the lack of affordable accommodation is a big barrier for students attending tertiary accommodation-----
- Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Engagement with Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (11 Jun 2025)
Paul Murphy: ----- and it is a priority for him.
- Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Engagement with Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (11 Jun 2025)
Paul Murphy: Yet, he does not know how the new scheme is going to work.
- Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Engagement with Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (11 Jun 2025)
Paul Murphy: Yes, and you signed off on it.
- Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Engagement with Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (11 Jun 2025)
Paul Murphy: I presume the Minister signed off on it, and agreed to it with collective responsibility.
- Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Engagement with Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (11 Jun 2025)
Paul Murphy: Can he tell students now that if they are in private rented accommodation they are going to be covered by rental protection and that they are not going to face market increases every time they have a new tenancy?
- Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Engagement with Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (11 Jun 2025)
Paul Murphy: Does the Minister agree that when this legislation is being put together, students need to be protected so they cannot be subject to market resets every time they return to college, for example, the three or four times in the course of going to college?
- Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Engagement with Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (11 Jun 2025)
Paul Murphy: I thought he asked if we were doing yes-no answers.
- Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Engagement with Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (11 Jun 2025)
Paul Murphy: Yes. The Minister is coming before us the day after we have had a major-----
- Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Engagement with Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (11 Jun 2025)
Paul Murphy: No. I want to interrogate the Minister for higher education who has acknowledged that accommodation is the number one issue. When we spoke about the priorities for this committee, we spoke about this.
- Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Engagement with Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (11 Jun 2025)
Paul Murphy: Respectfully, the Chair’s job is not to defend the Government-----
- Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Engagement with Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (11 Jun 2025)
Paul Murphy: -----or to protect the Minister from questioning. The Minister will not even answer whether it is his position as Minister for higher education, that students should be protected from hikes every time they come back but-----