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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: 2014 Pre-Budget Submission: Department of Education and Skills (17 Jul 2013)

Joanna Tuffy: Before the Minister replies on that, I asked whether more could be done to get funding from the Department's top fund for our third level sector. The ESF funding was very important in the 1980s and 1990s. ESF funding of courses meant many more people could go to college. That was the start of free education for many people who might not otherwise have gone to college. Could funding from...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: 2014 Pre-Budget Submission: Department of Education and Skills (17 Jul 2013)

Joanna Tuffy: They seem a bit like league tables for second level schools, which in no way get across the message about teachers who help pupils who might not otherwise have made it through the education system.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: 2014 Pre-Budget Submission: Department of Education and Skills (17 Jul 2013)

Joanna Tuffy: We are discussing the tables from the Department which deal with the savings. They are probably presented in a slightly different format from the Estimates. If Deputy McConalogue is agreeable, I suggest we stick to this programme and then we can move back. The level of funding to the third level sector was cut. How did that work out in practice? Would the Minister comment on how the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: 2014 Pre-Budget Submission: Department of Education and Skills (17 Jul 2013)

Joanna Tuffy: Yes, but it is probably another day's work. I understand that the Union of Students in Ireland, USI, is in favour of testing in principle. It adopted a decision recently. It would be good to have the USI attend on this issue.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: 2014 Pre-Budget Submission: Department of Education and Skills (17 Jul 2013)

Joanna Tuffy: If members are agreeable, we will move to programme B on skills development and work our way through the programmes on higher education, etc.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: 2014 Pre-Budget Submission: Department of Education and Skills (17 Jul 2013)

Joanna Tuffy: That matter was covered briefly.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: 2014 Pre-Budget Submission: Department of Education and Skills (17 Jul 2013)

Joanna Tuffy: If members are agreeable, we will move on to skills development, the element that includes FÁS-SOLAS, Quality and Qualifications Ireland, etc. Do members have questions on this programme? It is outlined on pages 8 and 9 of the committee secretariat’s briefing. As there are no questions, I will ask one. Will the education and training boards, ETBs, fall under this section?...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: 2014 Pre-Budget Submission: Department of Education and Skills (17 Jul 2013)

Joanna Tuffy: -----Dún Laoghaire and other bodies was on Monday. Will savings accrue from the merger this year or next year? Has a figure been put on the savings?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: 2014 Pre-Budget Submission: Department of Education and Skills (17 Jul 2013)

Joanna Tuffy: The savings in the foreseeable future will not be large.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: 2014 Pre-Budget Submission: Department of Education and Skills (17 Jul 2013)

Joanna Tuffy: Programme C is higher education, as outlined on pages 9 and 10 of the briefing. Are there questions on it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: 2014 Pre-Budget Submission: Department of Education and Skills (17 Jul 2013)

Joanna Tuffy: We have the basis.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: 2014 Pre-Budget Submission: Department of Education and Skills (17 Jul 2013)

Joanna Tuffy: Many issues have been raised in the context of the first programme on first, second and early school education. We will wrap up that programme. Is the Deputy's question on it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: 2014 Pre-Budget Submission: Department of Education and Skills (17 Jul 2013)

Joanna Tuffy: We will now move on to programme A.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: 2014 Pre-Budget Submission: Department of Education and Skills (17 Jul 2013)

Joanna Tuffy: The issue is older teachers being employed.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: 2014 Pre-Budget Submission: Department of Education and Skills (17 Jul 2013)

Joanna Tuffy: Everything should be done to incentivise the employment of new graduates but I am concerned about ageism. We are pushing people to retire and we want people to leave the public sector, but retired people may have many years ahead of them. We need balance in the debate. We do not want to be ageist and state people are finished at a particular age, but we are also concerned about newly...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: 2014 Pre-Budget Submission: Department of Education and Skills (17 Jul 2013)

Joanna Tuffy: It is about trying to get the balance right. Not all of them would be in receipt of a pension.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: 2014 Pre-Budget Submission: Department of Education and Skills (17 Jul 2013)

Joanna Tuffy: We will move to programme A.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: 2014 Pre-Budget Submission: Department of Education and Skills (17 Jul 2013)

Joanna Tuffy: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: 2014 Pre-Budget Submission: Department of Education and Skills (17 Jul 2013)

Joanna Tuffy: Does Deputy Griffin have related questions?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: 2014 Pre-Budget Submission: Department of Education and Skills (17 Jul 2013)

Joanna Tuffy: I am not totally familiar with the distinction in regard to working assets as it does not tend to come up in my constituency. Is it like Tesco or Aldi stores? What is a working asset? I would think a working asset could be a very profitable asset.