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

Paul Kehoe: The other issue raised, and the Minister touched on it, was the WorldSkills competition. I asked how this undertaking is funded and the answer was that the finance comes from the HEA and private enterprise. The witnesses said it is getting more difficult each year to get buy-in from private enterprise. Perhaps this funding aspect is something the Minister's Department might be able to...

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

Paul Kehoe: I thank the Minister and his officials for coming here today for this discussion. It has been productive. I apologise that it has been cut short. The Minister, Deputy Harris, and the Minister for Education, Deputy Foley, will also attend the next meeting of the committee.

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Enterprise Support Services (19 May 2022)

Paul Kehoe: 18. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if there is a county breakdown of the 125 start-ups that were supported by Enterprise Ireland in 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24957/22]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Consumer Protection (19 May 2022)

Paul Kehoe: 47. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the progress his Department has made in transposing EU legislation, such as Council Directive 2019/2161, in the area of consumer protection; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24958/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (19 May 2022)

Paul Kehoe: 148. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department has plans to offer businesses supports to engage in lifelong learning; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24950/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Personal Public Service Numbers (19 May 2022)

Paul Kehoe: 304. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of the issuing a new PPSN for a person (details supplied); when their Public Services Card will issue; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25497/22]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Risk Management (18 May 2022)

Paul Kehoe: 68. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the status of coastal protection and flood relief projects in Rosslare Strand, County Wexford; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25054/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (17 May 2022)

Paul Kehoe: 97. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide details on her Department’s new workplace pension scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24440/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (17 May 2022)

Paul Kehoe: 98. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will outline the benefits of doubling the period of time for which domiciliary care allowance and carer’s allowance paid for children who are hospitalised; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24364/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Business of Joint Committee (17 May 2022)

Paul Kehoe: Good morning everyone. Apologies have been received from Senators Flynn, Mullen and O'Loughlin. I remind members to ensure that their mobile phones are switched off for the duration of the meeting as they interfere with the broadcasting equipment, even when on silent mode. Regarding the speaking slots for today's meeting, I ask that Senator Byrne be allowed to go second as he has to leave...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Future Funding of Higher Education: Discussion (Resumed) (17 May 2022)

Paul Kehoe: Today we are meeting the chairpersons of the technological universities, TUs. On behalf of the committee I welcome Ms Josephine Feehily, Technological University of the Shannon: Midlands Midwest, TUS, Mr. Jimmy Deenihan, Munster Technological University, MTU, and Dr. Patrick Prendergast, South East Technological University, SETU. Ms Maura McAnally, SC, chair of Atlantic Technological...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Future Funding of Higher Education: Discussion (Resumed) (17 May 2022)

Paul Kehoe: That is fine. I remind members and witnesses of the long-standing parliamentary practice to the effect that they should not comment on, criticise or make charges against a person outside the Houses or an official either by name or in such a way as to make him or her identifiable or otherwise engage in speech that might be regarded as damaging to the good name of a person or entity. If...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Future Funding of Higher Education: Discussion (Resumed) (17 May 2022)

Paul Kehoe: Thank you very much. This committee visited TUS and MTU and met the presidents and staff there, which was very useful for us. We will be visiting SETU in September, which will give Dr. Prendergast the opportunity to bed in first. The first member is Deputy Conway-Walsh, who will be followed by Senator Malcolm Byrne.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Future Funding of Higher Education: Discussion (Resumed) (17 May 2022)

Paul Kehoe: I also have a few questions. I was reminded of something but I will not say where I was or how I heard about it. Mr. Deenihan said there were no female toilets in one block in one of the colleges, and I thought how times have changed. We have now to accommodate both males and females because women are now able to do whatever men are able to do. That is fantastic. I heard a woman who is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Future Funding of Higher Education: Discussion (Resumed) (17 May 2022)

Paul Kehoe: I will move to the question of philanthropic funding. I do not like making a distinction between the main universities and TUs because I think they are equal. For any student who is getting a qualification, a university qualification from a TU is equally as important as any other university qualification. I know some of the universities are very good at attracting philanthropic funding....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Future Funding of Higher Education: Discussion (Resumed) (17 May 2022)

Paul Kehoe: Something that impressed me with the setting up of the TUs was the calibre of the people who are willing to serve. I say this genuinely: the three witnesses come from very highly regarded career backgrounds. Many other people in the private sector would love to have them as chair of their boards, but in fairness to them, they have seen the positives and the road ahead for TUs and what they...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Future Funding of Higher Education: Discussion (Resumed) (17 May 2022)

Paul Kehoe: I will come back to my two colleagues in a second. I have a question for Dr. Prendergast. I was delighted to see him tweet this morning from the Carlow campus at SETU, where students from the FCJ Secondary School in Bunclody in my constituency were being shown around the campus. That is so important. This leads me to my other question. We talked about STEM subjects. I believe colleges,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Future Funding of Higher Education: Discussion (Resumed) (17 May 2022)

Paul Kehoe: Trinity College should not be out of anybody's reach but people see it as a kind of barrier. There are now people who have gone to Trinity whose parents would never have dreamed their sons or daughters would even pass by its gates in years gone by, which is fantastic. I have no doubt Deputy Conway-Walsh has one or two questions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Future Funding of Higher Education: Discussion (Resumed) (17 May 2022)

Paul Kehoe: It is coming up to 1 o'clock and I would like to-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Future Funding of Higher Education: Discussion (Resumed) (17 May 2022)

Paul Kehoe: We will let Ms Feehily finish.