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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Legislative Programme (5 Mar 2025)

James Lawless: My Department will be transposing two pieces of EU legislation into Irish law. Neither of these will be referred to an Oireachtas Committee.Directive (EU) 2024/505 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 7 February 2024 amending Directive 2005/36/EC as regards the recognition of professional qualifications of nurses responsible for general care trained in Romania [due March...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Mar 2025)

James Lawless: You want the veto.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (4 Mar 2025)

James Lawless: 408. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update on the provision of extra ASD school places in north County Kildare (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9793/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (4 Mar 2025)

James Lawless: 629. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will examine timelines for the further reductions in child care costs under the national childcare scheme (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9792/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (4 Mar 2025)

James Lawless: There are a number of supports of the types referenced in the Deputy's question potentially available to Irish students who choose to study abroad. Irish students studying within the EU or UK at undergraduate level may be eligible for SUSI maintenance grants. Erasmus grants are available for students enrolled in Irish Higher Education Institutions who wish to study abroad as part of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Adult Education Provision (4 Mar 2025)

James Lawless: In March 2024, SIPTU and TUI, the unions representing tutors, agreed to a proposal to formally establish a new grade of adult educator with a standardised pay scale aligned with the Youthreach Resource Person grade. This scale has 13 points and two Long Service Increments. This proposal allows for incremental progression and a career path for tutors in the further education and training...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (4 Mar 2025)

James Lawless: I wish to advise the Deputy that the Higher Education Authority (HEA) has received a number of proposals from Higher Education Institutions (HEIs), including a proposal for increased provision on the MTU Kerry campus, under the Apprenticeship Expansion Programme. All proposals are being considered in the context of each HEIs overall capital development plan and sectoral investment...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Adult Education Provision (4 Mar 2025)

James Lawless: I thank the Deputy for raising this issue with my Department. Officials have been in contact with Cork Education and Training Board (CETB) regarding this matter. They have advised my officials that they have been working to implement the terms and conditions contained within the agreement that allows for the conversion of tutors to the new Adult Educator Grade as set out in the nationally...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (4 Mar 2025)

James Lawless: I propose to take Questions Nos. 787 and 788 together. My officials are working closely with the Department of Health to expand the healthcare workforce capacity of the country, including oral healthcare. My Department does not place a quota on dental courses, and therefore the number of places offered is a matter for the higher education institutions, in line with their autonomy....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (4 Mar 2025)

James Lawless: Budget 2025 included a package of measures to support households with the cost of education. These measures include a €1,000 reduction in the student contribution fee for higher education students that are eligible for the Free Fees Initiative (FFI). This reduction followed on from similar once off student contribution reductions in Budgets 2023 and 2024 for free fees eligible...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (27 Feb 2025)

James Lawless: 112. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection how he plans to deal with the very slow delivery of reimbursements from the humanitarian assistance scheme despite saying at the beginning it would take mere days. [7935/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (27 Feb 2025)

James Lawless: 138. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will offer rapid intervention on an urgent case of a person (details supplied) whose mobile home was entirely destroyed during storm Éowyn, thus deeming them homeless. [7936/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Budgets (27 Feb 2025)

James Lawless: My Department secured funding of €500,000 in Budget 2024 for Period Dignity initiatives. €250,000 of the funding went to Education and Training Boards (ETBs) and €250,000 went to publicly funded Higher Education Institutions (HEIs). This was part of wider Government efforts to break down barriers to access to higher and further education and specifically to ensure that no...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (27 Feb 2025)

James Lawless: National apprenticeship programmes are delivered through both on-the-job training with the employer and off-the-job training delivered in Educational Training boards (ETBs) or Higher Education Institutions (HEIs). Apprentice employers must adhere to an Apprenticeship Code of Practice, stipulating that employers must provide access for the apprentice to the appropriate equipment, tools...

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

James Lawless: I propose to take Questions Nos. 429 to 431, inclusive, together. The Deputy will be aware that the Annual Options Paper on Reducing the Cost of Education, as published last September (www.gov.ie/en/publication/db3c6-funding-the-future-an-annua l-options-paper-on-the-cost-of-higher-education-2024/), estimated costs of various options to reduce the cost of attending tertiary education,...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Feb 2025)

James Lawless: You used to, in the past.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Feb 2025)

James Lawless: It is called political debate.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (26 Feb 2025)

James Lawless: 135. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on the progression of matters regarding the sign off on temporary accommodation for a school (details supplied) in order for the school to accommodate additional students due to the school being oversubscribed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8343/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Adult Education Provision (26 Feb 2025)

James Lawless: As the Deputy is aware, in March 2024, SIPTU and TUI, the unions representing tutors, agreed to a proposal to formally establish a new grade of adult educator with a standardised pay scale aligned with the Youthreach Resource Person grade. This scale has 13 points and two Long Service Increments. This proposal allows for incremental progression and a career path for tutors in the further...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Adult Education Provision (26 Feb 2025)

James Lawless: As the Deputy is aware, in March 2024, SIPTU and TUI, the unions representing tutors, agreed to a proposal to formally establish a new grade of adult educator with a standardised pay scale aligned with the Youthreach Resource Person grade. This scale has 13 points and two Long Service Increments. This proposal allows for incremental progression and a career path for tutors in the further...