Results 701-720 of 1,730 for speaker:Aisling Dolan
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Flooding of Lough Funshinagh: Lough Funshinagh Group (26 Oct 2022)
Aisling Dolan: I thank the witnesses again for coming before us today. We need to get further updates from OPW and all stakeholders involved. It is crucial that we come to a solution that is planned for the time ahead. I look forward to hearing those updates with everyone, come 10 November. I thank the Chair for his generosity in letting me start the session.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Oct 2022)
Aisling Dolan: We received fantastic news last Thursday with the notice from the Minster for Health, Deputy Stephen Donnelly, and the Minister of State, Deputy Rabbitte, of an allocation of funding for out-of-hours GP services. I have raised this a number of times here in the Seanad on the Order of Business but also through Commencement matters. It was a crisis for our GP network. I am so grateful that...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Mental Health Supports in Schools and Tertiary Education: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Oct 2022)
Aisling Dolan: I thank the witnesses for their detailed submissions. I welcome that we have been able to bring so many of the representative groups and unions to speak to the committee about mental health. A number of the members of this committee also sit on the education committee and like me, on the mental health committee, which is a brand-new sub-committee of the health committee. We see many...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Mental Health Supports in Schools and Tertiary Education: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Oct 2022)
Aisling Dolan: Can I ask Ms Leydon if secondary schools cannot provide this or why secondary schools will not provide this?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Mental Health Supports in Schools and Tertiary Education: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Oct 2022)
Aisling Dolan: I do not think it is just-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Mental Health Supports in Schools and Tertiary Education: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Oct 2022)
Aisling Dolan: I disagree to some extent. There are a number of schools and we are seeing that one in four schools that access supports are DEIS schools. They are not just accessing supports for numeracy and literacy but for supports: to engage with this transition period; in well-being; in communication; in isolation; and in all the challenges we have seen over the two years of lockdown that we have all...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Mental Health Supports in Schools and Tertiary Education: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Oct 2022)
Aisling Dolan: Or the summer programme.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Mental Health Supports in Schools and Tertiary Education: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Oct 2022)
Aisling Dolan: There was an early announcement this year. I am aware that it is a challenge but compared to last year there is an early announcement this year, which came in the last month, about the summer programme. The name has now changed. How can we support second level schools to engage in that programme? We now have an early announcement, we have the funding, and it is opening up for students at...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Mental Health Supports in Schools and Tertiary Education: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Oct 2022)
Aisling Dolan: But we will have the ASTI support?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Mental Health Supports in Schools and Tertiary Education: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Oct 2022)
Aisling Dolan: That would be great.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Mental Health Supports in Schools and Tertiary Education: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Oct 2022)
Aisling Dolan: There seems to be very good feedback from principals around this programme, so I am curious about that. I thank Ms Leydon.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Junior Cycle Examination Results 2022: State Examinations Commission (25 Oct 2022)
Aisling Dolan: It can be sent now. Can someone in Ms Feeney's team email it now please?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Junior Cycle Examination Results 2022: State Examinations Commission (25 Oct 2022)
Aisling Dolan: It is a pity that we have only received this now. I understand, I hope, that it is going to be rectified. I thank Ms Feeney, Mr. Dolan and Ms Sheridan who are before the committee today from the SEC. Does the SEC report to the Department of Education? I know it sits differently under the Minister. Does it report directly to the Minister for Education?