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- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Further and Higher Education (23 May 2024)
Further and Higher Education
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Further and Higher Education (23 May 2024)
David Stanton: 13. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to further expand and develop further education courses for people with disabilities and those seeking to avail of second-chance education and training; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23290/24]
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Further and Higher Education (23 May 2024)
David Stanton: I want to give the Minister an opportunity to let us know what good work is taking place in his Department and at third level in order to expand and further develop further education courses for people with disabilities and for others who are seeking to avail of second-chance education and training.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Education Costs (23 May 2024)
Patrick O'Donovan: I am sure Deputy Boyd Barrett would accept that we are on the one page on this issue. I never thought I would be on the same page as People Before Profit on anything but I imagine that the Deputy would subscribe to the idea that where resources are limited and finite, they should be targeted toward the people who need them most. Thus, it is on a means-based, targeted system, which is what...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Education Costs (23 May 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes, but this needs a whole-of-government approach. It cannot just be the Minister. If we do not have early intervention for children with special needs, the costs down the line for the rest of society will be huge. There has to be holistic thinking. If we get people trained in areas like the allied health professions and as nurses, doctors, teachers and so on, we will save society a lot...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Education Costs (23 May 2024)
Mairead Farrell: I remember when the student contribution charge was brought in. Everybody knew it was fees by another name. Realistically, it is long past time for it to be removed. Instead, what we saw in the last budget, which surprised me, were more one-off measures. We are past the time for that; we need to do better than one-off measures. We need to hear a commitment from the Government that...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Education Costs (23 May 2024)
Patrick O'Donovan: All options will be on the table when I discuss this matter with the Ministers, Deputies Donohoe and McGrath. Regarding Deputy Boyd Barrett's comment about the 19th century, if we had a 19th-century approach to third level education, I would never have had the chance to go to university because I did not go to a private school. That is the reality. This country has been transformed through...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Further and Higher Education (23 May 2024)
Further and Higher Education
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Further and Higher Education (23 May 2024)
Brendan Smith: 7. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the major capital projects that will be progressed this year in the further education sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23273/24]
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Further and Higher Education (23 May 2024)
Brendan Smith: I congratulate the Minister on his appointment and wish him well in his new role. I very much welcome the emphasis that has been placed on the development of further education since the Government took office in June 2020. I spoke to the Minister's predecessor on many occasions about the opportunities that exist to develop the further education sector on an all-Ireland, cross-Border basis....
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Further and Higher Education (23 May 2024)
Patrick O'Donovan: I thank the Deputy for his warm words. In 2022, two new capital infrastructure programmes were launched to provide for significant investment in further education and training, FET. These programmes are the FET college of the future major projects fund and the strategic infrastructure upgrade fund. The college of the future major projects fund will support projects that can help drive...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Further and Higher Education (23 May 2024)
Brendan Smith: I thank the Minister for his reply. He would be very welcome to visit Cavan Institute, which has been a very successful institute since its establishment. I was very much involved with Cavan Institute as I was the chair of the first board of management of the college. I was involved in having the initial buildings and accommodation provided. It was actually the first dedicated PLC college...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Further and Higher Education (23 May 2024)
Patrick O'Donovan: I agree with the Deputy. One of the statistics that bears testimony to what he is saying is that in a very short period, the budget for FET has grown from €5 million to €65 million. This comes from the creation of the Department, which was a commitment in the programme for Government. Let us be realistic, when all of this was part of the remit of the Department of Education,...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Further and Higher Education (23 May 2024)
Brendan Smith: I can assure the Minister that Cavan and Monaghan ETB will work very diligently on this. It has put together a very strong business case to advance this accommodation proposal. I do not think that we in this House can emphasise enough the importance of the further education sector. Over the years I have seen many young people who may have come from communities where there was not a...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 35 - Army Pensions
Vote 36 - Defence
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 12: Stock Management in the Defence Forces (23 May 2024) Brian Stanley: I thank Mr. McCarthy and invite Ms McCrum to make her opening statement. She has five minutes.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 35 - Army Pensions
Vote 36 - Defence
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 12: Stock Management in the Defence Forces (23 May 2024) Brian Stanley: I thank Ms McCrum. The first member to speak is Deputy Verona Murphy.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 35 - Army Pensions
Vote 36 - Defence
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 12: Stock Management in the Defence Forces (23 May 2024) Brian Stanley: One second, Deputy. The witness feels a question was asked that was not answered.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 35 - Army Pensions
Vote 36 - Defence
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 12: Stock Management in the Defence Forces (23 May 2024) Brian Stanley: Ms McCrum will have a chance to answer that.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 35 - Army Pensions
Vote 36 - Defence
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 12: Stock Management in the Defence Forces (23 May 2024) Brian Stanley: I will return to the numbers. It was mentioned that there were 8,000 applicants in 2023. How many of those were successfully recruited? Is Ms McCrum talking about the Defence Forces overall? Is she talking about the Air Corps, the Naval Service and the Army? Were the 8,000 recruits for the three branches of the Defence Forces? How many of those were recruited to the Defence Forces?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 35 - Army Pensions
Vote 36 - Defence
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 12: Stock Management in the Defence Forces (23 May 2024) Brian Stanley: So 415 were recruited. Ms McCrum mentioned that somebody joining as a private earns €39,000 in the first year.