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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Public Service Performance Report 2022: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)

Aisling Dolan: Because an awful lot of the competitive funding is online.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Public Service Performance Report 2022: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)

Aisling Dolan: In terms of the peer review funding, I do not want to see any impact to the existing programmes that are being run and how they are being run. With this plan over the next year to two years, how is the Department planning to ensure the minimum impact to existing peer review processes, funding and competitions that are out there at present, particularly for the stellar centres of excellence...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Public Service Performance Report 2022: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)

Aisling Dolan: I thank Mr. Howard. That is good to know. That will bring relief to many other groups as well. The other question I was asking Dr. Lillis was on the Government science adviser role. What are the actions to date on that and when is that planned?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Public Service Performance Report 2022: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)

Aisling Dolan: Fantastic. That is great news. That is really good.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Public Service Performance Report 2022: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)

Aisling Dolan: Good.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Public Service Performance Report 2022: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)

Aisling Dolan: There will, therefore, be international people and industry people on this as well as academic experts across the fields of the arts, science, humanities, etc. Is that how we would see it being structured? Is the Department is linking in with how to get non-Exchequer funding as well as funding from other partner agencies within this national science forum, or is it more citizen science?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Public Service Performance Report 2022: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)

Aisling Dolan: The Department is in the middle of recruitment. Hopefully, there is a big advertisement out now to anybody who wants to apply for the Government's science adviser role in Ireland. It is wonderful in terms of how we are performing in terms of research and the amazing excellence that we have here. When may that person bein situ, ideally, if all went to plan?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Public Service Performance Report 2022: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)

Aisling Dolan: What planning has been put in place to manage the installation of solar panels in schools when funding is announced under the climate action fund, which is expected to happen shortly? Is that within the remit of any of the officials?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Public Service Performance Report 2022: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)

Aisling Dolan: Is that quicker than shortly or is shortly better than imminent?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Public Service Performance Report 2022: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)

Aisling Dolan: is that for the new agency?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Public Service Performance Report 2022: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)

Aisling Dolan: I have one or two other questions. On ETBs, there were different things mentioned here around the apprenticeship programme. We spoke briefly about the increase. The Department is going over its targets. It is over its target as well in terms of women it is trying to target on to the different programmes on the apprenticeship side. I will talk about the role of ETBs here. In particular, I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Public Service Performance Report 2022: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)

Aisling Dolan: Yes, he visited. We were hoping to have funding, and Ms Miley might speak to this, too, for veterinary course for big animals, which I hope will happen in Mountbellew, and courses there that are really important.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Public Service Performance Report 2022: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)

Aisling Dolan: That is absolutely wonderful. Our constituencies changed after the most recent census so that is wonderful. That currently sits within the Galway East constituency. I am speaking about the Roscommon-Galway constituency currently. Within County Roscommon, the ETBs are active but we currently do not have apprenticeship training. There is an increase in apprenticeship programmes and in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Public Service Performance Report 2022: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)

Aisling Dolan: I believe that the process hopefully will be happening again. I thank Ms Miley very much. I appreciate that time might be short. I might come in later, Chair, if there is time at the end.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (7 Nov 2023)

Aisling Dolan: We had a new store opened at home by Vision Ireland, which is the new name for the NCBI. The new name has been chosen to show that the organisation's work is to do with visual impairment. Sometimes people think of complete blindness but many individuals have a vision impairment throughout their lives. When I was at the shop, I got to meet two older ladies who have macular degeneration....

Seanad: Housing For All: Statements (7 Nov 2023)

Aisling Dolan: I thank the Minister of State for being with us. It is great to hear the numbers relating housing, whereby almost 30,000 homes were delivered in 2022, and the targets in Housing for All. In my home town of Ballinasloe, more than 70 units are going to come on stream as a result of a particular development. These are homes for families in our town. They are crucial. This was a turnkey...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Apprenticeship Programmes (8 Nov 2023)

Aisling Dolan: County Roscommon has no provision for an apprenticeship sector. In the space of three years, the Minister's new Department, the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, has led on significant achievements. We can see landmark changes, with a new funding agency for research and innovation and the Minister's focus on apprenticeships. At a recent meeting...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Apprenticeship Programmes (8 Nov 2023)

Aisling Dolan: I thank the Minister. This is really positive progress. It is important to see this business case completed. Of course the Minister is welcome, along with officials from SOLAS, to come to Roscommon town to meet with Galway-Roscommon Education and Training Board and local representatives, who will fight this case. The Minister must not forget that County Roscommon is within the just...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Nov 2023)

Aisling Dolan: We have a new Local Link service. It goes to Donegal, Sligo and Leitrim. I thank the manager there, Fiona O'Shea, because one of those routes is being extended with enhanced service to Ballaghaderreen and Castlerea in Roscommon. It is excellent to see they are being smart. They are looking at existing bus routes and extending them to surrounding counties. This route, 977, will operate up...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Consent Programmes in Irish Education: Discussion (7 Nov 2023)

Aisling Dolan: I welcome the representatives from the bystander intervention programme in UCC and the active consent programme in Galway. I thank them for the kind comments about the anti-bullying report, because that is one of the first reports this committee worked on. It impacted on all of us. Nearly one in three experience bullying in school environments. It had a significant impact on us as a...