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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Future Funding of Higher Education: Discussion (Resumed) (24 May 2022)

Carol Nolan: I thank all of the witnesses for coming in. It has certainly been very insightful and informative to have the apprentices here. It is very valuable because it is their experience and they are telling us what the gaps are. They are bringing to our attention what needs to change and the aspects that could be much better for apprentices. I wish all those present the very best in their...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Future Funding of Higher Education: Discussion (Resumed) (24 May 2022)

Carol Nolan: That is fair enough. My final question is for Mr. English. On the world skills competition, it is fantastic to see Ireland do so well at that level. We obviously have high-calibre skilled apprentices. Is this attracting companies to set up in Ireland? I sit in on many IBEC meetings and they always mention that there is a shortage of skilled labour and that this is an issue for employers....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Future Funding of Higher Education: Discussion (Resumed) (24 May 2022)

Carol Nolan: I thank Mr. English.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Future Funding of Higher Education: Discussion (Resumed) (24 May 2022)

Carol Nolan: I thank the Minister for his presentation. I start by welcoming the positive developments and changes to make things easier for students availing of grants, with the travel distance being cut. More students can now qualify for a full grant. The maintenance grant has been increased by €200, along with the income threshold being increased by €1,000 for the standard grant. They...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: International Relations (19 May 2022)

Carol Nolan: 261. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will raise concerns with the Chinese authorities following the recent arrest of a person (details supplied) in Hong Kong under national security laws; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25548/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: United Nations (19 May 2022)

Carol Nolan: 332. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if Ireland has yet to ratify the United Nations Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25546/22]

Garda Síochána (Compensation) Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 May 2022)

Carol Nolan: I welcome the progress this Bill has made, especially as it is primarily concerned with providing a new compensation scheme to repeal and replace the current expensive and slow approach that has not been fit for purpose for some time. It is clear from experience that the legitimate claims of members of An Garda Síochána were not being addressed in a fair and timely manner. We...

Just Transition: Statements (18 May 2022)

Carol Nolan: My position on the so-called just transition has been clear since the process was announced. My major concern is that Government policy is destroying jobs by escalating a process that simply cannot and will not deliver what it promises without significant damage to local economies, particularly in Offaly and Laois. This is reckless of the Government, not least in the absence of alternatives...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 May 2022)

Carol Nolan: The real problem is that the cap of €4,500 relating to student earnings is extremely low. There is inflation and people are struggling to cope with the cost of living. Students are no different. We have spiralling rent costs, as I have already outlined. It would make sense to do something that would act as an incentive to ensure that we invest in students in this country and that...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 May 2022)

Carol Nolan: I wish to raise some concerns I have around the Student Universal Support Ireland, SUSI, grant scheme for third level students. I do this, however, while acknowledging the good work the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, Deputy Harris, has done and the fact he has initiated some much-needed reform in this area, particularly around the regulations to...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Culture Policy (18 May 2022)

Carol Nolan: 70. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will investigate the possibility of categorising turf-cutting and turf use as protected cultural practices under such instruments as the Council of Europe Framework Convention on the Value of Cultural Heritage for Society, otherwise known as the Faro Convention; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24997/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Approved Housing Bodies (18 May 2022)

Carol Nolan: 72. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will request the Approved Housing Bodies Regulatory Authority to conduct a value-for-money assessment of the approved housing bodies sector, given that there were 495 approved housing bodies listed in his Department’s register as of March 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24995/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Approved Housing Bodies (18 May 2022)

Carol Nolan: 73. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the funding that has been provided to each approved housing body in 2020 and 2021, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24996/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (18 May 2022)

Carol Nolan: 154. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide the uptake levels and the progress of efforts to address issues involving consent and sexual harassment as referenced in his remarks to the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Gender Equality on 5 May 2022 (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25001/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Maternity Hospital (18 May 2022)

Carol Nolan: 173. To ask the Minister for Health if he will make available the correspondence that he received from the 52 senior National Maternity Hospital clinicians in February 2022. [25329/22]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 May 2022)

Carol Nolan: We still have ongoing challenges in the private forestry sector. The target for licences for private landowners was reached in only one month out of the past 11. The Social Economic Environmental Forestry Association of Ireland has highlighted the fact there is a queue of 400 licences, none of which has been approved in the past five weeks. I ask the Taoiseach to take urgent action because...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Constitutional Convention (17 May 2022)

Carol Nolan: 157. To ask the Taoiseach the amounts paid, either on the basis of a contract or as gratuities or expenses to each of the chairpersons, speakers, facilitators, researchers or other persons in respect of the Constitutional Convention in 2012 and all citizens assemblies that were held from 2012 to date. [23976/22]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (17 May 2022)

Carol Nolan: 164. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment further to Parliamentary Question No. 71 of 4 May 2022, the number of work permits granted to chefs and to each other category which applies to the restaurant sector in each of the years from 2016 to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24142/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (17 May 2022)

Carol Nolan: 202. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will address the concerns raised by an organisation (details supplied) in relation to the decision to exclude private bus companies from the 20% fare reduction on State-funded public transport services; if he will address the concern that there is preferential treatment of State services over commercial entities; and if he will...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Training (17 May 2022)

Carol Nolan: 444. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on the requirement that a minimum requisite base-level gender-knowledge and gender-sensitive teaching methods skillset be mandatory for all educators in order to register as a post-primary teacher with the Teaching Council, regardless of their chosen subject; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24241/22]