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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: North-South Enrolment in Tertiary Education: Discussion (14 Feb 2023)

Jim O'Callaghan: Mr. Brownlee mentioned that many students in Ireland go on to do further education in Northern Ireland, particularly in popular courses such as nursing and social care. Do we know what happens to them after they get their degrees in Northern Ireland? Do many come back here? Does Mr. Brownlee have any data on that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: North-South Enrolment in Tertiary Education: Discussion (14 Feb 2023)

Jim O'Callaghan: The qualifications to work are similar in both jurisdictions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: North-South Enrolment in Tertiary Education: Discussion (14 Feb 2023)

Jim O'Callaghan: I thank Mr. Jones and Mr. Kelly for coming before the committee and for their very interesting contributions in their opening statements. Mr. Jones raised some very important points in the opening part of his statement which referenced the work of Fr. Micheál McGréil. We do not emphasise this enough or maybe not sufficient attention is given to it and I am not trying to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: North-South Enrolment in Tertiary Education: Discussion (14 Feb 2023)

Jim O'Callaghan: If one looks at some educational institutions, at the time of partition, the education of lawyers changed, obviously, because there were two different jurisdictions from then on. It seems to have happened in other educational disciplines as well that the links between the educational establishments seemed to be completely eradicated after partition. I am not trying to put blame on...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: North-South Enrolment in Tertiary Education: Discussion (14 Feb 2023)

Jim O'Callaghan: Perhaps those barriers were created for a specific political purpose. Many years ago, people wanted to see barriers up. As we know, when barriers are installed it is sometimes much more difficult to remove them. Are the witnesses' colleagues in third level institutions in Northern Ireland on strike at present?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: North-South Enrolment in Tertiary Education: Discussion (14 Feb 2023)

Jim O'Callaghan: Part of the reason for that is the terms of employment and pay. Mr. Jones mentioned the precarity of employment in Ireland. A couple of years ago we had a person before this committee who was a PhD student lecturing in a third level institution in Ireland. We were shocked at what he was being paid for lecturing. Have things improved in any way?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: North-South Enrolment in Tertiary Education: Discussion (14 Feb 2023)

Jim O'Callaghan: It is a perfectly legitimate argument to say we need to fund third level education much more in order that people do not remain in precarity of employment. Are the universities using PhD students too much and not paying them enough or is it unfair to criticise the third level institutions?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: North-South Enrolment in Tertiary Education: Discussion (14 Feb 2023)

Jim O'Callaghan: Does the witness apportion any criticism to the third level institutions in doing that or is it all the fault of the Exchequer?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: North-South Enrolment in Tertiary Education: Discussion (14 Feb 2023)

Jim O'Callaghan: I address these questions to Mr. Kelly. We spoke in the previous session about the different schemes that apply for students leaving school seeking to enter third level institutions in Ireland and Northern Ireland. In the former, it is the CAO. Offers of places are made after the examination results come out. In the latter it is UCAS and one gets a conditional acceptance. Is there a way...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: North-South Enrolment in Tertiary Education: Discussion (14 Feb 2023)

Jim O'Callaghan: I note the view of the TUI about Dundalk Institute of Technology and how that part of the island would benefit from a technological university.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: North-South Enrolment in Tertiary Education: Discussion (14 Feb 2023)

Jim O'Callaghan: I want to go back to the point I raised with Mr. Jones at the start. That part of the island was particularly affected by partition because there were very strong relationships between Newry, Dundalk and Drogheda and that whole region. Does Mr. Kelly believe that a technological university would play a role in rebuilding avenues of communication between people educationally there?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: North-South Enrolment in Tertiary Education: Discussion (14 Feb 2023)

Jim O'Callaghan: I thank Mr. Kelly and the Chair.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: North-South Enrolment in Tertiary Education: Discussion (14 Feb 2023)

Jim O'Callaghan: One of the points Ms Cousins mentioned was that students from Ireland who are given conditional acceptances do not take up the places in Northern Ireland presumably because they get offers from the CAO. I had not realised that the universities in Northern Ireland then cannot proceed to fill those places. Why is that, if it they are just conditional acceptances?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: North-South Enrolment in Tertiary Education: Discussion (14 Feb 2023)

Jim O'Callaghan: On the point that Senator O’Reilly raised, this is not a political issue. This is about trying to recognise the benefit of students availing of cross-jurisdictional study, whether they go to Northern Ireland or not or elsewhere. Does Dr. Patterson think there is a benefit in that?

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Sports Facilities (14 Feb 2023)

Jim O'Callaghan: 218. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when funding will be provided by Government for the upgrading and refurbishment of the RDS arena that is used widely for different sports. [6487/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Citizenship Applications (14 Feb 2023)

Jim O'Callaghan: 496. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the average processing time for citizenship applications in Ireland at present; if they can be reduced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6716/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (14 Feb 2023)

Jim O'Callaghan: 518. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when the new Garda stations at Clonmel and Macroom will be put out to tender; if these projects are being delayed in order to await tendering for a new family law court; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7200/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Parole Boards (14 Feb 2023)

Jim O'Callaghan: 529. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to introduce regulations to allow for persons serving determinate sentences to become eligible for parole review by the Parole Board as per section 24(3) of the Parole Act 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7420/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (14 Feb 2023)

Jim O'Callaghan: 578. To ask the Minister for Health the process by which pregnant women experiencing extreme nausea can obtain the drug Cariban which is available on the drugs payment scheme; the reason the drug cannot be prescribed by a GP on the drugs payment scheme; the number of Cariban prescriptions that have been processed through the drugs payment scheme to date in tabular form; and if he will make a...

Garda Síochána (Recording Devices) Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (9 Feb 2023)

Jim O'Callaghan: I am sharing time with Deputy Costello. I welcome the introduction of this legislation. The Bill is the latest type of legislation that seeks to prescribe and specify powers to be exercised by members of An Garda Síochána. It is important that before we give significant powers to members of An Garda Síochána, those powers be debated by this House and specified in...