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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Student Accommodation (16 Oct 2025)

Donna McGettigan: What the Minister, Deputy Chambers, talked about was accommodation that was already delivered. He spoke about Maynooth, which is already delivered, and UCD, which is already in the process of being delivered. He did not mention anything new. How much later in the year is the Minister talking about for the publication of the strategy? We are now in October and people are anxious to...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Student Accommodation (16 Oct 2025)

Donna McGettigan: I will have to look into that. The Minister said he recently approved funding of €67 million but that funding was announced in April 2024. It is not new funding. There is no mention of DCU, which has gone to tender and already has plans in place. All it is waiting for is permission to go ahead. This fund of €100 million was announced back in 2024; it is not new...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Education and Training Provision (16 Oct 2025)

Donna McGettigan: I welcome that. I agree with the Minister that they are well needed and well placed. They help people get their foot on the ladder. They are in communities. There is a real issue with the lack of transparency, which the Minister has pointed out as well. The pay and conditions for staff in both LTIs and community training centres, CTCs, are determined through a central process involving...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Education and Training Provision (16 Oct 2025)

Donna McGettigan: I appreciate those words. I am glad to hear that this will all be worked out. As the Minister said, it needs to be simplified and streamlined. The last letter that went out from the Minister of State, Deputy Harkin's office in 2025 states that LTIs are independent. This needs to be clarified for those LTIs out there that are trying to work through this. The fact the Department instructed...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Education and Training Provision (16 Oct 2025)

Donna McGettigan: 1. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for clarification on local training initiative operating guidelines, which state that any income received towards the running costs of an LTI , whether from earned income or secondary grant aiding, must be offset as income in the LTI monthly claim form. [56420/25]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Education and Training Provision (16 Oct 2025)

Donna McGettigan: The local training initiatives, LTIs, operating guidelines states that any income received towards the running costs of a LTI, whether from earned income or secondary grant aid, must be offset as income in the LTI monthly claim form. This clearly demonstrates that LTIs are not financially independent and cannot generate or retain income to improve wages or conditions as all funding is fully...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Accommodation (16 Oct 2025)

Donna McGettigan: 37. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the details on the missed targets in the last accommodation strategy; the reason this occurred; the reason there was no mention of this in Budget 2026; for an update on targets currently; if new funding will be put in place for this; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55741/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Provision (16 Oct 2025)

Donna McGettigan: 73. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide clarification in relation to Local Training Initiative Operating Guidelines (details supplied); if this policy means that LTIs are not financially independent and cannot generate or retain income to improve wages or conditions, given all funding is fully controlled and accounted for through the ETB and SOLAS system and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (16 Oct 2025)

Donna McGettigan: 402. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her Department’s plans to improve pathways for Senior cycle students into higher and further education; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40164/25]

Reform of the Defective Concrete Redress Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (15 Oct 2025)

Donna McGettigan: I welcome this motion and commend Deputy Ward on bringing it forward. There are families trapped in homes that are unsafe and that are literally crumbling around them. They put their faith in the defective block scheme. They filled out every form and jumped through every hoop and now some are being punished for being too early, for daring to hope that the Government would stand by them in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Apprenticeships: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Oct 2025)

Donna McGettigan: I have to agree with Deputy Brendan Smith regarding training and upskilling locally and exporting globally. That line can be concerning, particularly when we are trying to bring in building and healthcare sector workers. Opportunities and challenges in the demographic shift were mentioned. What would these be?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Apprenticeships: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Oct 2025)

Donna McGettigan: Does the validation work for providers include a duty of care charter to ensure that trainees are not discriminated against regarding the pay and conditions under which they work?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Apprenticeships: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Oct 2025)

Donna McGettigan: What about North-South qualifications and the lack of cohesion regarding A-Level and leaving certificate qualifications?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Apprenticeships: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Oct 2025)

Donna McGettigan: I thank the witnesses for enabling us to have this discussion. Many of my questions have been answered.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Apprenticeships: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2025)

Donna McGettigan: I thank the witnesses for coming in to speak to us. All I have seen since recently coming into this role is that there are issues with the apprenticeship system and that we need to overhaul it. However, I cannot understand why we are being led in this direction when some of the dropout rates are up at 47%. I do not understand why we would go that way. There are very good aspects of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Apprenticeships: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2025)

Donna McGettigan: In terms of the national apprenticeship office, I have the submission on apprenticeships from Connect Trade Union. Considering unanswered requests, lack of engagement and the fact that not one concern raised by the trade unions in their submissions to the national apprenticeship office was considered or implemented in the plan, what needs to change here with the national apprenticeship...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (9 Oct 2025)

Donna McGettigan: 351. To ask the Minister for Health the steps she will take to ensure that an organisation (details supplied) is provided with home base facilities in Shannon and in every area where they require them, to enhance their work; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54474/25]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Funding (9 Oct 2025)

Donna McGettigan: 367. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the steps he will take to ensure that an organisation (details supplied) are provided with home base facilities in Shannon and in every area where they require them, to enhance their work; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54475/25]

Financial Resolutions 2025 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (8 Oct 2025)

Donna McGettigan: From talking to students and students’ unions in the aftermath of this budget, I have discovered that they feel they are being treated very poorly. Has the Minister spoken with them or heard what they have to say? One students’ union wishes to know whether he is a magician in view of the fact that he is turning a €500 increase into a reduction. There are second and...