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Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Development of Local and Community Arts: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Nov 2023)

Aisling Dolan: Do we need more than one arts officer? When we look at the arts officer element within local authorities, is one arts officer or heritage officer sufficient in Galway, which is the second largest county? Do we have enough in our local authorities?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Development of Local and Community Arts: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Nov 2023)

Aisling Dolan: There is that support at local authority level.

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Development of Local and Community Arts: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Nov 2023)

Aisling Dolan: I know Mr. Croffy also highlights the importance of our libraries. I want it understood that those protected spaces owned by our local authorities are crucial to delivering drama across all groups.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Nov 2023)

Aisling Dolan: I join with Senator McDowell. Senator Norris is a Joycean scholar who has brought so much colour to the Seanad. To have been in the Chamber to at least hear him speak has been a real honour for me as well. Everything that Senator Norris achieved and what he did by bringing his case to the European Court of Human Rights was crucial in changing legislation here in Ireland, and we can never...

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...

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...

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...

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

Aisling Dolan: The challenge is that principals in schools have so much coming at them and there is so much they need to do. Practically, how does Dr. MacNeela see this happening? Can he share an example of how a secondary school he has worked with has implemented something like this?

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

Aisling Dolan: We know from Dr. MacNeela's report that 66% of students had experienced offensive sexist remarks and so on.

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

Aisling Dolan: That is great.

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

Aisling Dolan: Well done. Well said. I thank the witnesses very much. Hopefully they will have an opportunity at the end to come back in again.

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

Aisling Dolan: Ms McDowell spoke about the new subjects, which I wanted to ask about so I thank her for that. The active consent programme has been in place for the past five years. I know Ms McDowell has been doing evidence-based research since 2013 and probably the same applies to the bystander intervention programme. What are the targets for the next five years? There are already 70,000 first-year...

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

Aisling Dolan: There are 1 million primary and post-primary pupils. Even in Ballinasloe where I am from, which is a town of 7,000 people, there are 1,000 primary and 1,000 post-primary students.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Oct 2023)

Aisling Dolan: Today in the education committee we heard an update from Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science officials on targets the Department achieved under its performance review.Over 209,000 people are in higher education and over 32,000 people are in postgraduate education. We know the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science...

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

Aisling Dolan: I welcome the departmental officials and I thank them for their statements.. They are going through the performance report and they have highlighted quite a lot of different areas. I wish to go through a few issues with them. The Department is looking at school buildings and school places according to the national development plan. I have heard some of our representatives here talk...

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

Aisling Dolan: I understand. I take that on board and hopefully the departmental officials can come back to me.

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

Aisling Dolan: School buildings and school places are the two in the national development plan.