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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: North-South Student Mobility: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Feb 2024)
Paul Kehoe: Our first member today is Deputy Mairéad Farrell.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: North-South Student Mobility: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Feb 2024)
Paul Kehoe: I am worried that question is a little bit outside of the scope of what we are-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: North-South Student Mobility: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Feb 2024)
Paul Kehoe: I understand, Deputy, but I do not expect the Department to have the full reply-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: North-South Student Mobility: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Feb 2024)
Paul Kehoe: If the Department does not have all of the information, perhaps it might come back to the Deputy later with it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: North-South Student Mobility: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Feb 2024)
Paul Kehoe: I thank the Deputy and Mr. McKenna. I call Senator Flynn.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: North-South Student Mobility: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Feb 2024)
Paul Kehoe: One of my questions, around leaving cert results and the time period, has been answered. Mr. Brownlee mentioned his engagement with the Department for the Economy in Northern Ireland, which is very much welcome. We had a study trip to Scotland last week, when I raised the issue of apprenticeships. Scotland is having very similar challenges in encouraging people to go into apprenticeship...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: North-South Student Mobility: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Feb 2024)
Paul Kehoe: I listened to a debate last week on the lack of guidance counsellors in secondary education. There is a huge deficiency in that regard. It is an area that suffered from cutbacks in 2010 during the downturn in the economy. Those counsellors were never put back in place as they should have been. Guidance counsellors need to engage in secondary schools from second and third year. If some...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: North-South Student Mobility: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Feb 2024)
Paul Kehoe: The conversation I was listening to last week related to shared services between schools in each county. In the system we are all used to, the guidance counsellor is always based in the school, but that should not be the way. Mr. Brownlee was dead right about trained teachers going on to be guidance counsellors, or whatever the story is. In each county, there should be six or seven...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: North-South Student Mobility: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Feb 2024)
Paul Kehoe: I thank the officials for attending. The briefing has been very beneficial for our ongoing work at the committee and the important work on education both north and south of the Border.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: North-South Student Mobility: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Feb 2024)
Paul Kehoe: Last week, when we were in Scotland, we were talking about people from elsewhere in the UK coming to Scotland, because of Brexit and everything else that has caused a lot of problems. Has the Department come across that in doing any work between Northern Ireland and the Republic?
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Committee Stage (28 Feb 2024)
Paul Kehoe: Apologies have been received from Deputy Ó Ríordáin and Deputy Sherlock is substituting for him today. The Minister is here. I remind members and officials to make sure their mobile phones are switched off for the duration of the meeting. We have convened to resume consideration of the Research and Innovation Bill 2024. I welcome the Minister for Further and Higher...
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Committee Stage (28 Feb 2024)
Paul Kehoe: Amendments Nos. 1 and 45 to 47, inclusive, are related and will be discussed together.
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Committee Stage (28 Feb 2024)
Paul Kehoe: Amendments Nos. 2, 3, 14, 17, 19, 21 to 27, inclusive, 29 to 33, inclusive, 35, 39, 49, and 60 to 64, inclusive, are related and will be discussed together.
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Committee Stage (28 Feb 2024)
Paul Kehoe: The Minister can take them altogether.
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Committee Stage (28 Feb 2024)
Paul Kehoe: Amendments Nos. 4 to 6, inclusive, are related and will be discussed together.
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Committee Stage (28 Feb 2024)
Paul Kehoe: Amendments Nos. 7 to 11, inclusive, are related and may be discussed together. Is that agreed? Agreed. Amendment No. 9 is a physical alternative to amendment No. 8.
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Committee Stage (28 Feb 2024)
Paul Kehoe: I can go through these amendments very quickly. Does Deputy Farrell want to come back in?