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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Recent Closures of English Language Schools: Discussion (18 Jun 2014)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: However, that realisation should not have come about yesterday. It should have been arrived at last year or in the preceding three years. This is the tragedy. What is being stated now is that we are moving on and doing things differently. This matter has been bubbling away for the past three to five years and the relevant individuals have been getting away with it during that period....
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Recent Closures of English Language Schools: Discussion (18 Jun 2014)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I am on Mr. Moore's side.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Recent Closures of English Language Schools: Discussion (18 Jun 2014)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: ICOS is still here in a representative capacity and it is a member of the task force.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Recent Closures of English Language Schools: Discussion (18 Jun 2014)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I think what has happened to these students is disgraceful. This may be the greatest swindle I have come across in some time. Delegates from the Department of Education and Skills will come before the committee after the current witnesses and I will have much to say to them. I do not think this issue has received the incisive exposure in the press that it should. Members of the press...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Recent Closures of English Language Schools: Discussion (18 Jun 2014)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Where is the organisation based?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Recent Closures of English Language Schools: Discussion (18 Jun 2014)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: How is ICOS funded?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Recent Closures of English Language Schools: Discussion (18 Jun 2014)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: International students do not pay a stipend to ICOS.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Recent Closures of English Language Schools: Discussion (18 Jun 2014)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: ICOS does not get State funding.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Recent Closures of English Language Schools: Discussion (18 Jun 2014)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Were any of the colleges involved in this issue members of ICOS?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Recent Closures of English Language Schools: Discussion (18 Jun 2014)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Do any other international colleges, such as International House, make payments to ICOS?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Recent Closures of English Language Schools: Discussion (18 Jun 2014)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: How do international students access and make use of the services of ICOS?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Recent Closures of English Language Schools: Discussion (18 Jun 2014)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: How and when did ICOS come to know of the lack of regulation in this area? Some of these colleges have played fast and loose.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Recent Closures of English Language Schools: Discussion (18 Jun 2014)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: What did ICOS do about the issue? Exactly how long was it aware of the problem?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Recent Closures of English Language Schools: Discussion (18 Jun 2014)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: So for the last five years ICOS was aware of the issue that has recently come to our attention. When did ICOS and the Departments of Justice and Equality and Education and Skills begin to know that something was wrong?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Possible Reconfiguration of Schools: Edmund Rice Schools Trust (18 Jun 2014)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Mr. Bennett is making a very interesting point, because many of those schools are now derelict. Many of them have nobody in them and many of them have had to pay significant moneys to keep older members of those communities in homes and may have to sell parts of the schools. However, he is making a point about an unintended consequence of raising a caste system - of a percentage for one and...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Possible Reconfiguration of Schools: Edmund Rice Schools Trust (18 Jun 2014)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: It got better as it went along.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Possible Reconfiguration of Schools: Edmund Rice Schools Trust (18 Jun 2014)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I have no questions. I am more confused now than I was when I came in today. I am extremely confused.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Possible Reconfiguration of Schools: Edmund Rice Schools Trust (18 Jun 2014)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: No.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Possible Reconfiguration of Schools: Edmund Rice Schools Trust (18 Jun 2014)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: It is getting worse by the minute.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Possible Reconfiguration of Schools: Edmund Rice Schools Trust (18 Jun 2014)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Not overnight, I hope.