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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Student Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Sep 2025)

Erin McGreehan: I thank Professor Cunnane. To be fair to the other speakers, we will move on.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Student Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Sep 2025)

Erin McGreehan: I thank Professor Cusack for her statement.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Student Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Sep 2025)

Erin McGreehan: I thank the witnesses and call Senator Laura Harmon.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Student Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Sep 2025)

Erin McGreehan: Does Professor Cusack wish to respond?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Student Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Sep 2025)

Erin McGreehan: I am sorry Deputy, we have gone three minutes over the time. We can come back for a second round. Senator Dee Ryan is next.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Student Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Sep 2025)

Erin McGreehan: The Deputy has left 40 seconds for the witnesses to reply.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Student Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Sep 2025)

Erin McGreehan: I have two brief questions. Flexibility in the solutions needed for different towns, different universities and different needs was mentioned. Are there any examples of what that would look like? What would the preferred borrowing method be for the institutions? What are the witnesses' opinions on the nomination process? How will that work in fulfilling the plans they have thought up?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Student Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Sep 2025)

Erin McGreehan: I have just one other question. How many beds could be delivered out of the 53 projects the institutions thought of and collaboratively sent in?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Student Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Sep 2025)

Erin McGreehan: That is a substantial number of beds. It seems like gold. It is gold dust.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Student Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Sep 2025)

Erin McGreehan: Do any members have one final question?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Student Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Sep 2025)

Erin McGreehan: I thank Dr. Lillis. Deputy McGettigan wanted to put a final question.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Student Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Sep 2025)

Erin McGreehan: I thank Professor Cunnane very much. It is very clear from this meeting there is an urgent need. From the previous meetings and our engagement with constituents and family we know there is an urgent need to increase the supply of student accommodation and supports around all that. It is clear from all the witnesses there is a need for the Government to fulfil those programme for Government...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Strategies (25 Sep 2025)

Erin McGreehan: 14. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment for an update on the Programme for Government commitment to develop a new national life sciences strategy. [37448/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (25 Sep 2025)

Erin McGreehan: 357. To ask the Minister for Health the amount spent on the flu vaccine for each of the last three winter periods; to outline any plans to expand the scope of the flu vaccine for the upcoming winter period; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51093/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (25 Sep 2025)

Erin McGreehan: 358. To ask the Minister for Health if she or her Department has updated the plans to ensure greater availability of the flu vaccine this winter for at risk and vulnerable citizens; whether she has engaged with the pharmacist and general practitioner groupings to discuss the planned roll out of the flu vaccine; whether a cost-benefit analysis has been carried out by the Government in relation...

Use of Vapes and Nicotine Products by Young People and Adolescents: Statements (24 Sep 2025)

Erin McGreehan: I thank the Minister of State. It is great to have this debate in this House. I look forward to supporting the Minister of State as she brings forward the urgent legislation that has to come next. The "Vaping Nation" programme on Virgin Media One shone a stark light on what parents, teachers and health professionals have been warning us all about for some time, which is that vaping has...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Domestic Violence (24 Sep 2025)

Erin McGreehan: 102. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will address the issue of cross-border protection for victims of domestic abuse, where Irish safety orders do not extend to threats or harassment from individuals residing in England; and the steps being taken to improve the enforcement of such orders post-Brexit. [50549/25]

School Transport: Statements (23 Sep 2025)

Erin McGreehan: I thank the Minister of State for being here. School transport problems, unfortunately, are an annual event and we can rely on them happening every year. I meet frustrated parents. We all get emails and phone calls about stranded children, no certainty and a remarkably unfair lottery system. The majority of children still do not get access to any bus route. The children of Louth and...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Departmental Strategies (23 Sep 2025)

Erin McGreehan: 20. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the oversight mechanisms her Department will put in place in relation to the sectoral plans in the new disability strategy. [50189/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Childcare Services (23 Sep 2025)

Erin McGreehan: 28. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the action her Department is taking to address the lack of childcare places in County Louth. [50190/25]