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- 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
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Chapter 12: Stock Management in the Defence Forces (23 May 2024) Catherine Murphy: The witnesses are very welcome. It seems to me that the discipline goes in one direction. Why was the Chief of Staff not told to be the Accounting Officer? There appears to me to be a bit of Teflon here. I will continue with the previous line of questioning. As regards discipline, the fact hat people were completely silenced led to a point where there was a crisis in recruitment....
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
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Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 12: Stock Management in the Defence Forces (23 May 2024) Catherine Murphy: I know that.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
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Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 12: Stock Management in the Defence Forces (23 May 2024) Catherine Murphy: The thing is it blends because, for example, the person would understand the issues with recruitment and be held to account here. It costs a lot of money to train recruits. I have a case of one young recruit in Kildare who is not currently serving. When he joined up he was told he would get a place in a unit in the Curragh Camp. He was sent off to Galway where he was trained and then he...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
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Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 12: Stock Management in the Defence Forces (23 May 2024) Catherine Murphy: How much did it cost to defend the case where a PDFORRA member went to the High Court?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
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Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 12: Stock Management in the Defence Forces (23 May 2024) Catherine Murphy: Will Ms McCrum give us a ballpark figure?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
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Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 12: Stock Management in the Defence Forces (23 May 2024) Catherine Murphy: How many days was it in the High Court?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
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Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 12: Stock Management in the Defence Forces (23 May 2024) Catherine Murphy: We know the head count of the Permanent Defence Force is 8,003. That is what we have been told today. What should it be?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
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Chapter 12: Stock Management in the Defence Forces (23 May 2024) Catherine Murphy: I am reading from the opening statement.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
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Chapter 12: Stock Management in the Defence Forces (23 May 2024) Catherine Murphy: So it is less than-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
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Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 12: Stock Management in the Defence Forces (23 May 2024) Catherine Murphy: What should it be?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
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Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 12: Stock Management in the Defence Forces (23 May 2024) Catherine Murphy: It is going backwards.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
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Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 12: Stock Management in the Defence Forces (23 May 2024) Catherine Murphy: What is the gender profile? Are we losing the potential recruiting of women because of the reputational damage relating to the abuse that women suffered in the Defence Forces?