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- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Nursing Education (23 May 2024)
Rose Conway-Walsh: The Minister spoke about people not leaving the country. I will give him an example from the small, remote, rural area of Belmullet in which I live and from the Mullet Peninsula in County Mayo. More than 50 young people have left to go to Australia alone. Those are the facts, and he can check them out with his local people. Many of them are nurses, doctors and other clinicians we badly...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Nursing Education (23 May 2024)
Patrick O'Donovan: I do not agree there is any problem with foreign students coming into Irish universities. Plenty of Irish pharmacists, doctors and physiotherapists train in Scotland, Wales and England every year. This has been the case for some time. That is a good thing. I do not agree with that at all. The Deputy referred to it being underfunded. I accept that there is a figure to which we would...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Nursing Education (23 May 2024)
Rose Conway-Walsh: I am not.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Nursing Education (23 May 2024)
Patrick O'Donovan: With regard to population, I take my statistics from the Central Statistics Office. I represent a rural constituency. The Deputy knows as well as I do that every district electoral division has experienced an increase in population. This cant that people are leaving the country is just not true.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Nursing Education (23 May 2024)
Catherine Connolly: I am trying to get in as many people as possible.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Nursing Education (23 May 2024)
Question No. 15 taken with Written Answers
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Dental Services (23 May 2024)
Dental Services
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Dental Services (23 May 2024)
David Stanton: 16. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department is proposing the provision of a new University College Cork dental school and hospital facility; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23271/24]
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Dental Services (23 May 2024)
David Stanton: This question relates to the need for a new dental school and hospital facility in Cork. I was disappointed to learn recently that plans for such a facility were dropped last February. There is a major need in this regard. The current facility is old. It is too small, it is overcrowded and it is located on a busy campus. My information is that funding was the issue. I am interested to...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Dental Services (23 May 2024)
Patrick O'Donovan: The Department of further and higher education is working closely with the Department of Health to expand the healthcare workforce capacity of the country, including oral healthcare. The Department does not place a quota on the number of places on dental courses, and the number of places offered is therefore a matter for the higher education institutions in line with their autonomy. I...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Dental Services (23 May 2024)
David Stanton: I thank the Minister for his response. Will he consider visiting the Cork university dental school and hospital as soon as he can? I am alarmed to discover that funding will be invested in the old building, which has been described as frail, constrained and ill equipped. What is really needed, as I am sure the Minister will agree, is a new building. Planning permission was granted for it,...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Dental Services (23 May 2024)
Patrick O'Donovan: It is important to point out that UCC has received substantial government investment in recent years under a capital programme. These would have been identified by UCC. With regard to the dental school, we have to go back to 2016 when it was announced that UCC had secured a loan from the European Investment Bank, including €37 million to build a new Cork university dental school,...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Dental Services (23 May 2024)
David Stanton: I acknowledge that good work and it is hugely important but the need for a dental school and hospital remains. If I heard the Minister correctly, I am alarmed that €15 million in funding will be made available to refurbish an old building. For the sake of further, relatively small, investment we could have a state-of-the-art dental school in the south, which is badly needed. I...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Further and Higher Education (23 May 2024)
Patrick O'Donovan: Fostering inclusion is a core pillar of future of further education: transforming learning, the national further education and training strategy 2020-24. It identifies the needs of people with disabilities as a primary focus, acknowledging the need for more consistent support for this group. Widening participation is also a national target under the strategic performance agreements for...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Further and Higher Education (23 May 2024)
David Stanton: I thank the Minister for his support and acknowledge the good work in his Department at this level and the progress made. I have supplementary questions on this issue. Will the Minister look at the provision of changing places and toilets in third level institutions? These are toilets used by wheelchair users; they are bigger spaces. It makes a massive difference for people who are...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Further and Higher Education (23 May 2024)
Patrick O'Donovan: They are practical questions. I will come back to the Deputy about them. Regarding toilets in public places, for a lot of places of learning, whether FETs, universities or ETBs, it depends on their ownership, but the building regulations apply to them. If they are public buildings, there is need to have regard to all users and all people's ability to be mobile, regardless of who they are...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Further and Higher Education (23 May 2024)
David Stanton: I thank the Minister for his positive response. Transport to college is a big issue, as is the availability of wheelchair-accessible places on buses and so on. Perhaps the Minister might take on board the suggestion of a national survey. Will the Minister comment on the view of his Department and the sector in general regarding people with autism attending third level and further...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Further and Higher Education (23 May 2024)
Patrick O'Donovan: It is interesting that the Deputy has raised this issue. I had a discussion yesterday on the fact that if a child enters primary school, requires assistance and gets a special needs assistant, moves on to the second level system and has access to the same level of support and physical supports, whether sensory rooms or quiet spaces, that need does not stop when he or she transitions to third...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Nursing Education (23 May 2024)
Nursing Education
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Nursing Education (23 May 2024)
Rose Conway-Walsh: 14. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of additional places that have been added to nursing and medicine since 2020 for Irish and EU students; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23293/24]