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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Adult Education Provision (8 Apr 2025)

James Lawless: As per the Deputy’s previous question - PQ 7699/25 - on this matter submitted to my Department on 19th February 2025, and the response I gave on 25th March 2025 remains the same. As the Deputy is aware, in March 2024, SIPTU and TUI, the unions representing tutors, agreed to a proposal to formally establish a new grade of adult educator with a standardised pay scale aligned with the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Vacant Properties (8 Apr 2025)

James Lawless: My Department does not own or rent any properties, derelict or otherwise, in Dublin-Rathdown. All my Department's official locations are on sites owned and/or operated by the OPW in St. Stephen's Green, Marlborough St and Tullamore.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (8 Apr 2025)

James Lawless: I understand that the Leaving Certificate can be a stressful time for students and their families. This includes the decisions for students in determining their pathways into work or continued education through the Further Education and Training or Higher Education systems. My Department has been working tirelessly with the higher education and further education sectors to provide increased...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Adult Education Provision (8 Apr 2025)

James Lawless: I am sure that the Deputy will appreciate that, as Minister, I have no role in the operational day-to-day running of ETBs, as the scheduling and programming of courses is a matter for each individual ETB, subject to their available budget and local needs. My Department has significantly increased its investment in Further Education and Training in the last number of years, from circa...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Research and Development (8 Apr 2025)

James Lawless: Research infrastructure is an essential component of any national research and innovation system. It equips researchers across all research disciplines to undertake their research, to be internationally competitive, and to produce new knowledge and innovations for both economic and wider societal impact. It is also critical for training students as well as researchers in research techniques...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (8 Apr 2025)

James Lawless: While the CAO is a private not-for-profit company, not an agency of my Department, I understand that applications for places in Higher Education Institutions in 2025 will not be complete until May. Consequently I am not in a position to answer the first part of the Deputy's question. Any queries on CAO applications are a matter for the CAO and HEIs. I understand that the Leaving...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Data (8 Apr 2025)

James Lawless: The Gender Recognition Act comes under the remit of my colleague, the Minister for Social Protection. I understand that the Department of Social Protection will be in touch in due course, as to details and timeline for the next stage of the process that they would take forward on this matter, and with regard to the follow up to the publication of the review of the Gender Recognition Act,...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (8 Apr 2025)

James Lawless: I understand that the Leaving Certificate can be a stressful time for students and their families. This includes the decisions for students in determining their pathways into work or continued education through the Further Education and Training or Higher Education systems. My Department has been working tirelessly with the higher education and further education sectors to provide...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Irish Language (3 Apr 2025)

James Lawless: Our higher education system plays an important role in supporting and promoting the use of the Irish language. The Higher Education Authority Act 2022 highlights the importance of the Irish language by placing a responsibility on the Higher Education Authority (HEA) to ensure that higher education institutions (HEIs) promote and use the language. My Department, through the HEA, also...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (2 Apr 2025)

James Lawless: As was announced in 2024, a Veterinary Medicine degree in South East Technological University (SETU) has been recommended for progression under the HEA Expression of Interest process. It is anticipated that this programme will have its first intake in September 2026, with up to 40 students expected to enrol. Engagement with the Veterinary Council of Ireland is ongoing in relation to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Tourism Industry (2 Apr 2025)

James Lawless: In line with the Programme for Governments commitment with the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sports and Media to develop long term, sustainable, well paid careers in the tourism industry, officials in my Department have contacted SOLAS who advise that there were 268 Further and Education Courses in the area of tourism and hospitality nationally in 2024. Of these courses,...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Meetings (2 Apr 2025)

James Lawless: I have held no formal Ministerial Management Board meetings to date. However, since taking up office, I have held numerous briefing sessions and meetings with Management Board members on issues under their purview, on an almost weekly basis. I am also in constant communication with the Secretary General on the important work of the Department and on any issues as and when they arise. I...

Confidence in the Ceann Comhairle: Motion (1 Apr 2025)

James Lawless: Ag insint bréag.

Confidence in the Ceann Comhairle: Motion (1 Apr 2025)

James Lawless: That is why the Deputy is in opposition.

Confidence in the Ceann Comhairle: Motion (1 Apr 2025)

James Lawless: We stand on a precipice. The world is burning and the barbarians are at the gate. We face multiple existential crises. We have instability in the Middle East, war in Ukraine and climate change. Trade wars will start tomorrow, with tariffs posing threats to the global economy.

Confidence in the Ceann Comhairle: Motion (1 Apr 2025)

James Lawless: Tomorrow, we will see the threats becoming real. In this House, we watched aghast as Boris Johnson and the Brexiteers prorogued parliament, when they suspended the people's assembly, denying that parliamentary procedure could take place. We watched in horror on 6 January 2021 when the Capitol rioters stormed Washington DC to stop the election results being ratified. We never thought we...

Confidence in the Ceann Comhairle: Motion (1 Apr 2025)

James Lawless: We are talking about eight minutes of speaking time.

Confidence in the Ceann Comhairle: Motion (1 Apr 2025)

James Lawless: Across the floor, we see three groups. We see the "Shout 'em down Shinners", yet again agitating, barracking anybody or anything that stands in their way. I fundamentally believe they cannot accept the outcome of the election. They could not accept the outcome of the one before that either-----

Confidence in the Ceann Comhairle: Motion (1 Apr 2025)

James Lawless: -----because, in 2020, they went on a world tour proclaiming that they had actually won the election despite the fact that they did not command a majority of the House. They lost the next election in 2024. The "most effective Opposition history the State" - it was certainly the most hyped Opposition history of State - also had the greatest drop in support in the history the State of any...

Confidence in the Ceann Comhairle: Motion (1 Apr 2025)

James Lawless: We move on to Sinn Féin's junior partners on the benches beside it and we will look at the Labour Party-----