Results 261-280 of 329 for speaker:Jen Cummins

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Student Accommodation (27 Mar 2025)

Jen Cummins: -----because there is no on-campus accommodation, which would be ideal for a great many people. It is also very expensive. I live in Dublin 8 and quite a lot of student accommodation was built in the area over recent years. However, it is totally unaffordable for the average student with rents of €1,250 per month. If it is a five-week month, it is €1,350. That accommodation...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Student Accommodation (27 Mar 2025)

Jen Cummins: The flipside is that parents sending children into digs accommodation cannot be sure they will be fully protected. That is also a challenge. I agree with the Minister that there definitely needs to be balance from the perspective both of the landlord or digs provider and of the student. These students are often in their first year and do not have a big network so we need to have that...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Fees (27 Mar 2025)

Jen Cummins: 49. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his Department's plans to keep the reduction in student capitation. [14648/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Staff (27 Mar 2025)

Jen Cummins: 67. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the demands by an organisation (details supplied) for protections for staff on precarious contracts in the tertiary education sector. [14650/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Accommodation (27 Mar 2025)

Jen Cummins: 71. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the detail the plans to provide affordable student accommodation across the country to address the accommodation crisis. [14647/25]

Triple Lock Mechanism and Irish Neutrality: Motion [Private Members] (26 Mar 2025)

Jen Cummins: This motion is about giving voice to the people of Ireland. It is a matter that goes beyond policy; it is about democracy. The Government's attempt to remove the triple lock without public consultation is not just a policy change but a fundamental shift in Ireland's stance on the global stage and yet the people have not been asked. During the most recent election, neutrality and the...

Triple Lock Mechanism and Irish Neutrality: Motion [Private Members] (26 Mar 2025)

Jen Cummins: -----because it is not about that. I want to be very clear on that.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Youth Work Supports (26 Mar 2025)

Jen Cummins: I thank the Minister of State for his contribution. The increase in funding for youth work is very welcome. The role I had immediately after youth work was working in the school completion programme. While there have been increases in funding for both of those sectors, during the austerity era youth work and the school completion programme were cut so dramatically and so drastically that...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Youth Work Supports (26 Mar 2025)

Jen Cummins: I congratulate the Minister of State on his new role. I wish him the best of luck and look forward to working with him over the course of this term. I will be speaking on pathways to youth work at third level. Youth work in Ireland is decades old. There are many types of youth work and they exist in every community in the country. Youth workers do a job that is sometimes mistaken or...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (25 Mar 2025)

Jen Cummins: 371. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for a breakdown of expenditure of public funds to private schools; the purpose of the funding, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13779/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (25 Mar 2025)

Jen Cummins: 413. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of enrolment applications in a school (details supplied) in each of the past five years, compared to the number of students enrolled in each of the past five years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14126/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: National Educational Psychological Service (25 Mar 2025)

Jen Cummins: 414. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for the number of National Educational Psychological Service assessments being made available for schools in Dublin South Central; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14127/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (25 Mar 2025)

Jen Cummins: 415. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide details of plans to build primary and secondary schools in an area (details supplied). [14128/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (25 Mar 2025)

Jen Cummins: 519. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection why a person (details supplied) is classified in their receipt of disability allowance as an adult dependent. [13934/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Research and Development (25 Mar 2025)

Jen Cummins: 873. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he plans to continue the success of Ireland’s membership of the European Southern Observatory by expanding access or creating more opportunities such as postdoctoral research for Irish astronomers. [13321/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Research and Development (25 Mar 2025)

Jen Cummins: 874. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans for the implementation of support infrastructure for the European Southern Observatory for Irish astronomers similar to those announced following Irelands accession to CERN. [13322/25]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Schools Building Projects (20 Mar 2025)

Jen Cummins: I thank the Minister of State for his comprehensive answer. Yes, it is not the answer I want but God loves a trier. The reconfiguration process has been very slow to date. The previous programme for Government had it that, I think, 400 schools would be transferred. Unfortunately, that number has not been reached yet and I did not see it in the programme for Government this time. The...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Schools Building Projects (20 Mar 2025)

Jen Cummins: As this is my first Topical Issue, hopefully I will get the timing and all the rest of it right. I thank the Minister of State for taking this and wish him the very best of luck in his new role. I do not think I have congratulated him yet. Today, I am asking about families in Dublin 8 who are looking to have a multidenominational secondary school for their children. They have been...

Young Carers: Motion [Private Members] (20 Mar 2025)

Jen Cummins: Ba mhaith liom buíochas a ghabháil leis an Labour Party as an rún seo. Fáilte to all the young carers, those from Family Carers Ireland who are in the Visitors Gallery and those watching. I support this crucial motion because for too long, young carers in this country have been invisible as they work in their homes providing vital assistance to loved ones in their...

Social Housing Tenant In Situ Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (19 Mar 2025)

Jen Cummins: Gabhaim buíochas le Sinn Féin as an tairiscint seo. I ask the Government to engage with the Opposition on housing because, frankly, the policies the former is putting forward are ensuring that people go into homelessness, and that includes families, children and hard-working individuals. They are facing homelessness and there is absolutely no reason for it. This scheme is a...