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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Adult Literacy: Discussion (19 Nov 2019)
Jan O'Sullivan: The purpose of this part of the meeting is to have an engagement with stakeholders on adult literacy. I apologise that there will be a clash with priority questions to the Minister for Education and Skills. A number of committee members have questions to ask but we hope they will return to the meeting when they have finished. On behalf of the committee, I welcome Ms Cróna Gallagher,...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Adult Literacy: Discussion (19 Nov 2019)
Jan O'Sullivan: I thank Ms Gallagher for her presentation. She has raised a point to which we will return. I call Ms Bailey.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Adult Literacy: Discussion (19 Nov 2019)
Jan O'Sullivan: I thank Ms Bailey for her presentation. I call Mr. Phil O'Flaherty.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Adult Literacy: Discussion (19 Nov 2019)
Jan O'Sullivan: I thank all our guests for their presentations. It strikes me that one of the appendices supplied by the National Adult Literacy Agency lists the nine Departments involved with adult literacy. This committee deals with education and skills. It is a very important matter.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Adult Literacy: Discussion (19 Nov 2019)
Jan O'Sullivan: It is useful to have Senator Higgins here in light of her experience with the other committee. There is obviously an interrelation between different Departments and committees. I wish to add some questions. I have a question for Ms Gallagher on the issue of people who are hard to reach. How do we bring in people who clearly will have difficulty with or a fear of engaging with various...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Adult Literacy: Discussion (19 Nov 2019)
Jan O'Sullivan: Is that per annum?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Adult Literacy: Discussion (19 Nov 2019)
Jan O'Sullivan: It is a matter of having work-based literacy programmes as well. That is what we need.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Adult Literacy: Discussion (19 Nov 2019)
Jan O'Sullivan: We are interested in feedback on how that money is to be spent and what new work is going to be done.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Adult Literacy: Discussion (19 Nov 2019)
Jan O'Sullivan: I thank Ms Gallagher. Her comments lead us into our next session, which is on digital literacy among adults. The witnesses have certainly given us food for thought and have raised proposals and issues that we may need to follow up on. It has been very interesting and may lead to us wanting to do some more work in this area. I thank all three witnesses for their presentations. I propose...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Digital Literacy in Adults: Discussion (19 Nov 2019)
Jan O'Sullivan: The purpose of this part of the meeting is to have an engagement with stakeholders on digital literacy in adults. On behalf of the committee, I welcome Ms Elizabeth Waters from An Cosán; Mr. George Ryan, chief operating officer, FIT Limited; Dr. Alice Mathers, head of research, the Good Things Foundation; Mr. James Bryant, academic and Trinity College Dublin graduate; Mr. Kevin...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Digital Literacy in Adults: Discussion (19 Nov 2019)
Jan O'Sullivan: If possible, please.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Digital Literacy in Adults: Discussion (19 Nov 2019)
Jan O'Sullivan: The next speaker is Dr. Alice Mathers of Good Things Foundation. I understand she has an aeroplane to catch. We will understand if she has to leave. If we have any questions for her, presumably we can send them on to her later.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Digital Literacy in Adults: Discussion (19 Nov 2019)
Jan O'Sullivan: I thank Dr. Mathers and invite Mr. Bryant to make his opening statement.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Digital Literacy in Adults: Discussion (19 Nov 2019)
Jan O'Sullivan: I thank Mr. Bryant and invite Mr. Marshall from Microsoft to speak.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Digital Literacy in Adults: Discussion (19 Nov 2019)
Jan O'Sullivan: I thank Mr. Marshall. Our final speaker is Mr. Morrissey from the Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Digital Literacy in Adults: Discussion (19 Nov 2019)
Jan O'Sullivan: I thank Mr. Morrissey very much. That much work remains to be done is probably a good way to start the discussion. I am going to turn to the members. I call Senator Ruane.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Digital Literacy in Adults: Discussion (19 Nov 2019)
Jan O'Sullivan: Yes. Will you ask your questions first and then get responses? We apologise but questions are still going on in the Dáil which is why our membership is so small.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Digital Literacy in Adults: Discussion (19 Nov 2019)
Jan O'Sullivan: Okay. You can come back again.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Digital Literacy in Adults: Discussion (19 Nov 2019)
Jan O'Sullivan: I thank Senator Ruane very much. There were a number of questions. I am not sure who wants to go first. Maybe Dr. Mathers would like to speak now in case she has to go.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Digital Literacy in Adults: Discussion (19 Nov 2019)
Jan O'Sullivan: As Ms Waters is in a community organisation maybe she will come in next.