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- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards (25 Apr 2024)
Paul Kehoe: 199. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason that a school (details supplied), as an ETB school, has not received DEIS status; when the school can be reconsidered for this status; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18581/24]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (23 Apr 2024)
Paul Kehoe: Are the minutes of 10 April agreed? Agreed. I welcome, from the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, Mr. Joseph Moore, principal officer, and Ms Mary Twomey, assistant principal. The officials are here to brief the committee on COM (2024) 27. I will invite Mr. Moore to give a brief opening statement of three minutes. This will be followed by...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (23 Apr 2024)
Paul Kehoe: The first person up is Deputy Ruairí Ó Murchú.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (23 Apr 2024)
Paul Kehoe: Will Mr. Moore provide a brief reply? I am only giving people two minutes because we have other witnesses waiting outside.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (23 Apr 2024)
Paul Kehoe: I ask the witness to respond to that. The Senator has had three minutes now.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (23 Apr 2024)
Paul Kehoe: I ask Mr. Moore to give a brief reply.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (23 Apr 2024)
Paul Kehoe: We will go into private session after this.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (23 Apr 2024)
Paul Kehoe: I call Senator Gavan.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (23 Apr 2024)
Paul Kehoe: Mr. Moore to reply and then we will conclude.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (23 Apr 2024)
Paul Kehoe: I thank the witnesses. We will go back into private session.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: European Year of Skills 2023: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)
Paul Kehoe: From the National Learning Network I welcome its director, Ms Lucianne Bird, and Ms Shona Healy, student; from Skillnet Ireland, Ms Tracey Donnery, director of policy and communications; from Eurofound, Dr. Gijs van Houten, senior research manager; and from WorldSkills, Mr. Ray English, chair, and Mr. Sean McLoughlin, apprentice electrician and competitor in the WorldSkills competition. The...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: European Year of Skills 2023: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)
Paul Kehoe: Okay.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: European Year of Skills 2023: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)
Paul Kehoe: I thank Ms Bird. The rest of her statement will be available to members. I call Ms Healy to make her statement.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: European Year of Skills 2023: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)
Paul Kehoe: Dead on time. Five minutes exactly.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: European Year of Skills 2023: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)
Paul Kehoe: I remind members they have five minutes to ask questions and get replies. If we have time, we will have a second round.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: European Year of Skills 2023: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)
Paul Kehoe: It was one of the recommendations to the Department in a report which the committee put together. We had Worldskills in before. I am not sure if it was Mr. English.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: European Year of Skills 2023: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)
Paul Kehoe: Does Mr. English wish to make a contribution there?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: European Year of Skills 2023: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)
Paul Kehoe: I thank Senator Dolan. I have a few questions for Mr. English and the rest of the panel. Are we making enough of the significance of Worldskills Ireland and its being running concurrently? Mr. McLoughlin spoke about apprenticeships not being promoted in secondary schools. There is an opportunity now that we have the Worldskills Ireland programme in the RDS for two years. It is a big...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: European Year of Skills 2023: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)
Paul Kehoe: There is a big shortage of plumbers, electricians, carpenters, blocklayers and other tradespeople in the construction industry. We have a very significant number of migrants coming into Ireland. How do we tap into their potential? How can we offer apprenticeships and so on to them? I know there might be a language barrier or other issues but I believe those issues can be overcome. Does...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: European Year of Skills 2023: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)
Paul Kehoe: Mr. McLoughlin is in a different position. His father has his own electrical business. Everybody in school would have thought he would go on to work in his father's business and that is the way it is. I will ask about people who are totally outside of the area of apprenticeships. I will use the construction apprenticeships as an example because that is where we have big shortages and they...