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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Professional Accreditation of Higher Education Courses: Discussion (30 May 2023)

Jim O'Callaghan: In her opening statement, Ms Hanrahan said she understood the desire for education providers to have this ex anteapproval but that it is risky, and to approve courses based on the proposal rather than the reality transfers the risk from the education provider to patients or service users. Will she elaborate on that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Professional Accreditation of Higher Education Courses: Discussion (30 May 2023)

Jim O'Callaghan: What is the potential risk with ex anteapproval?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Professional Accreditation of Higher Education Courses: Discussion (30 May 2023)

Jim O'Callaghan: Professor Sheils stated that a more logical approach might be to allow a temporary approval based on a review of the planned curriculum, possibly for one intake, and then to review it when the programme is running to make an assessment for the final approval. Would that be a fair way of doing it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Professional Accreditation of Higher Education Courses: Discussion (30 May 2023)

Jim O'Callaghan: Does dealing with that issue require legislative intervention or is it something the bodies involved can introduce?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Professional Accreditation of Higher Education Courses: Discussion (30 May 2023)

Jim O'Callaghan: In the context of the social care profession, Ms McHugh spoke about CORU's register, which will launch a two-year transition period for the existing diverse sector of social care practitioners to apply within. In order for people to apply to that now, do they need qualifications or is it only after the two-year period that qualifications will become mandatory?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Professional Accreditation of Higher Education Courses: Discussion (30 May 2023)

Jim O'Callaghan: Any social care providers who are currently in place will need to register under the scheme.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Professional Accreditation of Higher Education Courses: Discussion (30 May 2023)

Jim O'Callaghan: Ms O'Sullivan stated it was crucial to streamline validation and accreditation processes. What did she mean by that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Professional Accreditation of Higher Education Courses: Discussion (30 May 2023)

Jim O'Callaghan: Professor Sheils mentioned that CORU requires that each profession has a separate board and that this is problematic. Why is that? Is she suggesting there should just be one board for all professions?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Professional Accreditation of Higher Education Courses: Discussion (30 May 2023)

Jim O'Callaghan: That is repetitive.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Professional Accreditation of Higher Education Courses: Discussion (30 May 2023)

Jim O'Callaghan: I thank the Chair, and I thank Ms O'Byrne and Ms Kenny for coming before the committee. I do not know if they heard the earlier session,

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Professional Accreditation of Higher Education Courses: Discussion (30 May 2023)

Jim O'Callaghan: One of the proposals put forward was by Ms Patricia O'Sullivan. She was talking about the fields of counselling, psychotherapy and psychology, and she thought it would assist public confidence if validation and accreditation processes could be streamlined, and a national working group established to harmonise policies. Obviously, I am conscious that Ms O'Byrne is not a politician and it is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Professional Accreditation of Higher Education Courses: Discussion (30 May 2023)

Jim O'Callaghan: I am not suggesting that the establishment of the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science has confused it, but is there any proposal or merit to the suggestion that perhaps we should move departmental responsibility away from the Department of Health for those issues, and over to the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Professional Accreditation of Higher Education Courses: Discussion (30 May 2023)

Jim O'Callaghan: There was also mention of care providers, and the fact that they now have to register within the next two years. I do not know if Ms O'Byrne was aware of that, or if she was here for that contribution.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Professional Accreditation of Higher Education Courses: Discussion (30 May 2023)

Jim O'Callaghan: In Ms O'Byrne's and the Department's assessment, how is CORU developing as the independent health regulator since it was established?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Professional Accreditation of Higher Education Courses: Discussion (30 May 2023)

Jim O'Callaghan: One of the other issues which was raised was the issue of approving and accrediting a course before it is up and running. Does one wait for the course to be up and running, and then give it approval after one sees how it is performing? Obviously, CORU and QQI are limited with regard to what they can do by the legislation which has been set down. From the point of view of the student, one...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Professional Accreditation of Higher Education Courses: Discussion (30 May 2023)

Jim O'Callaghan: Does that enhanced engagement happen in practical terms?

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Rental Sector (30 May 2023)

Jim O'Callaghan: 217. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of renters who have claimed the rent tax credit this year, by county, in tabular form. [25912/23]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Environmental Policy (30 May 2023)

Jim O'Callaghan: 250. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the action his Department is taking to improve indoor environmental quality standards. [26040/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Data (30 May 2023)

Jim O'Callaghan: 289. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the average class size for primary schools in each county in the 2020-2021, 2021-2022 and 2022-2023 school years, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26181/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Data (30 May 2023)

Jim O'Callaghan: 290. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the average class size for post-primary schools in each county in the 2020-2021, 2021-2022 and 2022-2023 school years, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26182/23]