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Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Coast Guard Service (16 May 2023)

Paul Kehoe: 281. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the current status of the upgrade of facilities for an area (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22470/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Pension Provisions (16 May 2023)

Paul Kehoe: 357. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if adjustments can be made for retired teachers in order that they are not penalised in their pension for working more than 50 days as part of a strategy to deal with teacher shortages; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23176/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Technological Universities (16 May 2023)

Paul Kehoe: 739. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the technological universities will be able to borrow money on the financial markets in the same way as the traditional universities, given that their current inability is both unfair and unsustainable and puts them at a clear disadvantage; if he intends that this borrowing capacity will be used for a wide range of purposes including...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Reviews (16 May 2023)

Paul Kehoe: 740. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the OECD Report entitled: ‘A Review of Technological University Academic Career Paths, Contracts and Organisation in Ireland’ will be published; if he intends to implement the recommendations in it as a matter of urgency; if he has plans to initiate a review of the current academic contract in technological universities,...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (16 May 2023)

Paul Kehoe: 741. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide clarity on how the consortium-led apprenticeships will be rolled out in the technological universities; if he will provide details of proposed core/ringfenced funding to TUs for apprenticeship training and education; if he will clarify whether funding is provided on a multi-annual basis; if so, if he will provide exact...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Technological Universities (16 May 2023)

Paul Kehoe: 742. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will liaise with the Minister for Health to ensure that the pilot Together All Programme, funded jointly by the Higher Education Authority and the Health Service Executive, can continue and be rolled out to all technological universities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22495/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Network (18 May 2023)

Paul Kehoe: 205. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an update on an emerging preferred route for the N3 to N4 link road and any work that has progressed between NTA, TII, Fingal, Kildare and South Dublin County Councils; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23904/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (18 May 2023)

Paul Kehoe: 252. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department owns land at a location (details supplied) in Dublin 15 ; if the land could be used as the permanent site for a school along with the site that the school is currently using; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23906/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Business of Joint Committee (30 May 2023)

Paul Kehoe: The committee, today, is meeting in public session in Committee Room 2. I remind members to ensure their mobile phones are switched off as they interfere with broadcasting. Are the minutes of the meeting of 23 May agreed to? Agreed. I propose we suspend for two minutes to bring in our witness.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Professional Accreditation of Higher Education Courses: Discussion (30 May 2023)

Paul Kehoe: The minutes of our previous meeting are agreed. On behalf of the committee, I welcome: Dr. Padraig Walsh, chief executive, Quality and Qualifications Ireland, QQI; Ms Ginny Hanrahan, chief executive and registrar of CORU; Professor Orla Sheils, vice-provost and chief academic officer of Trinity College Dublin, representing the Irish Universities Association, IUA; Ms Mary McHugh,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Professional Accreditation of Higher Education Courses: Discussion (30 May 2023)

Paul Kehoe: I thank Ms Hanrahan very much for that, and what better way to spend her last day than before an Oireachtas committee. How exciting it is. If we had known, we would have had a bouquet of flowers.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Professional Accreditation of Higher Education Courses: Discussion (30 May 2023)

Paul Kehoe: I thank Professor Sheils very much and call Ms McHugh.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Professional Accreditation of Higher Education Courses: Discussion (30 May 2023)

Paul Kehoe: That completes the witness statements. I now call on our first committee member to ask questions. Deputy Mairéad Farrell will be followed by Deputy Jim O'Callaghan.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Professional Accreditation of Higher Education Courses: Discussion (30 May 2023)

Paul Kehoe: Yes, the Deputy can go ahead.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Professional Accreditation of Higher Education Courses: Discussion (30 May 2023)

Paul Kehoe: I have a question for Ms Hanrahan. Does CORU have any processes in place for students who have trained and graduated from Northern Ireland or farther afield who then want to come to Ireland to work? Is that an issue? Does CORU recognise their qualifications?