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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...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Education (26 Feb 2025)

James Lawless: Graduate entry medicine (GEM) is a pathway for degree holders who want to pursue a medical career on an accelerated four-year programme. Students pursuing GEM programmes do so as second degree courses and consequently are not eligible for free fees funding. They are also not eligible for funding under the Student Grant Scheme as they do not meet the progression criteria of the Scheme. ...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Fees (26 Feb 2025)

James Lawless: Under the Free Fees Initiative (FFI) the State provides funding, exclusive of the student contribution, toward the tuition fee costs of eligible undergraduate higher education students who are pursuing approved full-time undergraduate courses of study in an approved higher education institution in the State. The balance of the fee cost is met by the student via a student contribution which...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Diseases (25 Feb 2025)

James Lawless: 721. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine what actions are being taken to mitigate the prevalence of TB in the cattle population, considering the traumatic effect is has to livelihoods and the beef industry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8092/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (25 Feb 2025)

James Lawless: The Student Grant Scheme and the Student Part-Time Fee Scheme for Specified Undergraduate Courses are statutory based scheme administered by Student Universal Support Ireland (SUSI). To qualify for student supports under the scheme, students must be attending an ‘approved course’ at an ‘approved institution’. The definition of an approved institution is set out...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (25 Feb 2025)

James Lawless: My Department has confirmed with SOLAS, an application was submitted by MSLETB for the development of the building referred to by the Deputy for apprenticeship provision. A site visit, involving SOLAS and the ETB, determined the facility could not be made fit-for-purpose for apprenticeship provision, either within the available budget or the required timeframe. Therefore, funding was not...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Consultations (25 Feb 2025)

James Lawless: My Department engaged external legal services relating to consultation to provide legal services for changes to the PPP Contract at National Maritime College, Ireland (NMCI) in 2023. Recommendations/comments from A&L Goodbody were provided to my officials in this regard. Please see below a tabular breakdown of the costs involved. Company Name 2023 Expenditure ...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Public Procurement Contracts (25 Feb 2025)

James Lawless: My officials are collating the necessary information, but it will not be available in the normal response time. My officials will revert to the Deputy as soon as the information is collated.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Public Procurement Contracts (25 Feb 2025)

James Lawless: My officials are collating the necessary information, but it will not be available in the normal response time. My officials will revert to the Deputy as soon as the information is collated.