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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Update on Key Issues: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (24 Jan 2024)
Simon Harris: I can indeed. Can the Deputy send me the details, please, so that I can understand where the person was renting a room-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Update on Key Issues: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (24 Jan 2024)
Simon Harris: -----in their home.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Update on Key Issues: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (24 Jan 2024)
Simon Harris: And were applying for a SUSI grant.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Update on Key Issues: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (24 Jan 2024)
Simon Harris: And were refused a SUSI-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Update on Key Issues: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (24 Jan 2024)
Simon Harris: One does not require to have a tenancy agreement.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Update on Key Issues: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (24 Jan 2024)
Simon Harris: Yes-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Update on Key Issues: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (24 Jan 2024)
Simon Harris: I will be happy to get clarity and to come back to the Deputy.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Update on Key Issues: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (24 Jan 2024)
Simon Harris: No.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Update on Key Issues: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (24 Jan 2024)
Simon Harris: I am hoping that is a typo. We might need to do some more classes-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Update on Key Issues: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (24 Jan 2024)
Simon Harris: Sure.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Update on Key Issues: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (24 Jan 2024)
Simon Harris: I do not have a breakdown by ETB with me but I can get one for the Deputy. Nationally the number of people doing PLC courses is up-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Update on Key Issues: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (24 Jan 2024)
Simon Harris: -----and is up quite significantly. SOLAS has spoken about this publicly and has produced figures on it. In general, the number of people doing PLC courses has risen, the trend is rising and is likely to continue to rise because of the demographics. I am happy to try to get under the bonnet of this and I do not want to interrupt the Deputy's question. I met Education and Training Boards...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Update on Key Issues: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (24 Jan 2024)
Simon Harris: I will get the Deputy more comprehensive note because I wonder if the parliamentary questions are just referring to PLCs specifically and were probably missing the mapping out in that answer with regard to traineeships, apprenticeships and tertiary degree programmes which could be available between the ETB and the technological universities. I would be very happy to ask the ETB to brief the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Update on Key Issues: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (24 Jan 2024)
Simon Harris: Very much so. My impression would be that LWETB is doing that and is doing that well. We have been doing these regional dialogues, which have been quite good, where we have been going to regions and having all the education players at a tertiary level to come into a room to discuss provision and their plans for their region, whether it is an ETB, a research centre, a technological...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Update on Key Issues: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (24 Jan 2024)
Simon Harris: Let us get clarity, because I know it to be a very proactive ETB with an excellent chief executive and with a great deal of demand. Let me just check that that parliamentary question did not too narrowly capture the information the Deputy was looking for.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Update on Key Issues: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (24 Jan 2024)
Simon Harris: On the national tertiary office and the national tertiary degrees, which, as the Deputy said, are the first time we have provided degree programmes outside of the CAO points system, he is correct to say 23 courses were identified. I will get him a breakdown, because I do not have one to hand, but I can tell him from my own knowledge and from going around the country and engaging with people...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Update on Key Issues: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (24 Jan 2024)
Simon Harris: I appreciate that. While I do not know the Deputy's second cousin, it is generally those kinds of stories, which we have heard time and again, that have inspired the programme. I want to be associated with the Deputy's comments. I fully commend the Department of integration and the Minister, Deputy O'Gorman, on the job they are doing. It would be irresponsible of them, in the middle of...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Update on Key Issues: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (24 Jan 2024)
Simon Harris: I find myself in pretty much complete agreement with Deputy Nolan. I will go through the issues. With regard to the regions and remote learning hubs, Deputy Nolan is entirely correct. Relatively recently, some time last year, I attended a launch. There is a lot of talk about remote working hubs and I believe they are working reasonably well, and particularly well in some areas. There is...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Update on Key Issues: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (24 Jan 2024)
Simon Harris: I am lucky to have an office. I thank the Deputy and welcome him back after his surgery. I will check that issue out. My honest answer is that I do not know. I have a dim view of any sort of vacant property in the middle of housing crisis, to make that point more generally. I have no knowledge of that but I will endeavour to find out for the Deputy. I thank him for paying tribute to...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Update on Key Issues: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (24 Jan 2024)
Simon Harris: What I might do is send the committee a note on this but the short answer is "Yes". The €5 million will sustain existing provision but we hope it will do a bit more than that because what we are also trying to do is put funding that had been temporary funding into the core. One of the things the universities regularly say is that all funding is welcome and makes a positive impact but...