Results 261-280 of 1,730 for speaker:Aisling Dolan
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Public Service Performance Report 2022: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)
Aisling Dolan: I will be very brief, and Ms Kirwan might reply to us again separately. It is on counselling. It was mentioned in the report that there are no results because it started in 2023. At the moment, there is a pilot for seven counties around counselling in primary schools. What is the plan to expand that pilot? When is that going to happen? I do not know if the Department has time to respond...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Public Service Performance Report 2022: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)
Aisling Dolan: The expansion of counselling.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Public Service Performance Report 2022: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)
Aisling Dolan: For the seven counties?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Public Service Performance Report 2022: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)
Aisling Dolan: Is that just within those seven counties?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Public Service Performance Report 2022: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)
Aisling Dolan: Is there no funding to expand?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Public Service Performance Report 2022: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)
Aisling Dolan: I thank Mr. Whelan.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Public Service Performance Report 2022: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)
Aisling Dolan: I thank everyone for coming to the meeting. It is amazing to think the Department of Higher and Further Education, Research, Innovation and Science has only been in existence for two years. It has been in place for three years but we have only had two years of the performance report we have before us. Well done to the officials. This is a brand-new organisation and Department. There is a...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Public Service Performance Report 2022: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)
Aisling Dolan: Is that not incredible?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Public Service Performance Report 2022: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)
Aisling Dolan: Well done.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Public Service Performance Report 2022: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)
Aisling Dolan: Apologies, I do not know the OPC. Is there a timeframe? Are we talking six months or a year?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Public Service Performance Report 2022: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)
Aisling Dolan: That is good to hear.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Public Service Performance Report 2022: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)
Aisling Dolan: Integrating systems.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Public Service Performance Report 2022: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)
Aisling Dolan: Because an awful lot of the competitive funding is online.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Public Service Performance Report 2022: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)
Aisling Dolan: In terms of the peer review funding, I do not want to see any impact to the existing programmes that are being run and how they are being run. With this plan over the next year to two years, how is the Department planning to ensure the minimum impact to existing peer review processes, funding and competitions that are out there at present, particularly for the stellar centres of excellence...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Public Service Performance Report 2022: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)
Aisling Dolan: I thank Mr. Howard. That is good to know. That will bring relief to many other groups as well. The other question I was asking Dr. Lillis was on the Government science adviser role. What are the actions to date on that and when is that planned?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Public Service Performance Report 2022: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)
Aisling Dolan: Fantastic. That is great news. That is really good.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Public Service Performance Report 2022: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)
Aisling Dolan: Good.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Public Service Performance Report 2022: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)
Aisling Dolan: There will, therefore, be international people and industry people on this as well as academic experts across the fields of the arts, science, humanities, etc. Is that how we would see it being structured? Is the Department is linking in with how to get non-Exchequer funding as well as funding from other partner agencies within this national science forum, or is it more citizen science?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Public Service Performance Report 2022: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)
Aisling Dolan: The Department is in the middle of recruitment. Hopefully, there is a big advertisement out now to anybody who wants to apply for the Government's science adviser role in Ireland. It is wonderful in terms of how we are performing in terms of research and the amazing excellence that we have here. When may that person bein situ, ideally, if all went to plan?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Public Service Performance Report 2022: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)
Aisling Dolan: What planning has been put in place to manage the installation of solar panels in schools when funding is announced under the climate action fund, which is expected to happen shortly? Is that within the remit of any of the officials?