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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (20 Sep 2023)

Simon Harris: Currently, Phase 2 Pipefitting training is delivered in Cork ETB and LMETB by two instructors. Phase 4 is currently delivered in LMETB and there is currently one workshop with one instructor delivering the training. As of August 2023, the total population of Pipefitting apprentices is 329, 327 of whom are and 2 of whom are female.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Education (20 Sep 2023)

Simon Harris: ... 40 Masters Taught (Postgraduate) Trinity College Dublin Social Work 20 Undergraduate Honours Degree University College Cork Social Work 10 Masters Taught (Postgraduate) University College Cork Master of Social Work 40 Masters Taught...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Funding (12 Jul 2023)

Simon Harris: ...,640 €22,832,118 IT Sligo €25,733,612 €29,711,322 €31,848,988 €83,960,028 €101,407,082 Cork IT €55,609,698 €63,090,847 IT Tralee €19,690,497 ...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Accommodation (11 Jul 2023)

Simon Harris: ...student accommodation units in the short term. In addition, my officials are continuing to assess a number of other projects with planning permission for delivery of additional supply. University College Cork currently has 1,281 PBSA beds on campus in Cork city, with an additional 255 beds coming on stream for the new academic year, bringing the total number of public PBSA bed spaces in...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Admissions (11 Jul 2023)

Simon Harris: ...regarding projections for higher education enrolment is available here: gov.ie - Projections (www.gov.ie) Data sourced from the HEA website details undergraduate new entrants to University College Cork and Munster Technological University for the last five academic years available, is outlined in the table below. Institute 2017/2018 2018/2019 2019/2020 ...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Admissions (11 Jul 2023)

Simon Harris: ...Provider 2021-22 Enrolments 2022-23 Enrolments Cavan and Monaghan ETB 89 61 City of Dublin ETB 377 296 Cork ETB 147 131 Donegal ETB 11 6 Dublin and Dun Laoghaire ETB 152 147 Galway and Roscommon ETB 116 ...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Labour Market (5 Jul 2023)

Simon Harris: ...Centres of Excellence operated by Waterford and Wexford Education and Training Board (WWETB), Laois and Offaly Education and Training Board (LOETB), Limerick Clare Education and Training Board (LCETB) and Cork Education and Training Board (CETB). CETB’s Centre of Excellence is the most recent addition to this network, and I officially opened this Centre on 22ndMay this year. Two...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Key Issues in Higher and Further Education: Discussion (21 Jun 2023)

Simon Harris: ...about stating accommodation is for a specific university. It should be accommodation for students in that area. We see this in other countries not too far from here. We should look at Dublin, Cork, Galway and the south east and see what are the student accommodation needs. We should get everybody to come together and meet that student accommodation need rather than institutions being...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Accommodation (14 Jun 2023)

Simon Harris: ...and TCD, and UCC also has proposals in development. These proposals are in addition to the 1,806 student accommodation beds delivered in the last year, with a further 929 beds due to open in Cork and Galway before the start of the next academic year. The Government agreed to support the development of long term evidence informed strategic policy to stimulate appropriate supply of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Accommodation (13 Jun 2023)

Simon Harris: ...and TCD, and UCC also has proposals in development. These proposals are in addition to the 1,806 student accommodation beds delivered in the last year, with a further 929 beds due to open in Cork and Galway before the start of the next academic year. The Government agreed to support the development of long term evidence informed strategic policy to stimulate appropriate supply of...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Third Level Education (1 Jun 2023)

Simon Harris: ...there are between 25 and 35 students in each year of the bachelor of science degree in radiation therapy at Trinity College Dublin. In addition to that, there are 15 students in University College Cork master's programme in radiation therapy. If Deputy Burke is asking me whether we intend to grow the number of places in radiation therapy at third level, the answer is "Yes". We intend to...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Student Accommodation (1 Jun 2023)

Simon Harris: ...college experience people desire and where they live. For many people it is not an option. Between now and the summer we will approve more student accommodation projects. I already mentioned one in Cork. We are also providing funding of €1 million to the technological universities to draw up their accommodation plans. It is the first time they have ever been given the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Apprenticeship Programmes (1 Jun 2023)

Simon Harris: There were 3,011 apprentices enrolled in Cork Education and Training Board, ETB, across a large range, including plumbing and electrical, wind-turbine maintenance and insurance practitioner. A key strength of the apprenticeship model is that it is a demand-led approach to meeting workforce and skill requirements in our economy and country. As apprentices are employees, the demand for and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Accommodation (1 Jun 2023)

Simon Harris: ...of accommodation needs, which will inform a long term student accommodation policy and methodology which I hope to bring to Government before the summer recess. With regard to on-campus student accommodation in Cork, I can confirm that UCC has opened applications for the new Purpose Built Student Accommodation at the Crow’s Nest site for the 2023/2024 academic year of 255 new beds....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (1 Jun 2023)

Simon Harris: I have not been made aware of any plans to develop a new campus on the north side of Cork city. However, my Department is willing to work collaboratively with all higher education institutions and Education Training Boards with the HEA and SOLAS on the development of capital projects in line with their established masterplans. My Department is currently supporting a number of key ongoing...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Accommodation (1 Jun 2023)

Simon Harris: ...and TCD, and UCC also has proposals in development. These proposals are in addition to the 1,806 student accommodation beds delivered in the last year, with a further 929 beds due to open in Cork and Galway before the start of the next academic year. In addition to stimulating purpose built student accommodation by higher education institutions my Department is encouraging the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (30 May 2023)

Simon Harris: ...figures. Division No. A/C Special Crime Operations 1 CAB 1 Cavan Monaghan 3 Clare 2 Cork City 4 Cork North 2 Cork West 2 Criminal Investigation Bureau 3 DMR East 2...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (30 May 2023)

Simon Harris: ...number of Garda personnel attached to each divisional crime scene unit as at 17 April 2023. Division as of 17/04/2023 Garda Sergeant Clare 1 Cork City 6 1 DMR East 3 1 DMR North Central 3 DMR South 1 ...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (30 May 2023)

Simon Harris: .... The CSO also continues to work with An Garda Síochána to address quality issues in the underlying sources used to compile the statistics. Figures in respect of suspected crime reported to Gardaí in Cork, by station, can be found on the CSO website at the link below. However, it is worth noting that crime statistics Q1 2023 are not yet available and are due to be...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (25 May 2023)

Simon Harris: ...keeps the allocation of these resources under continued review, in line with crime and population trends, to ensure their optimum use. I am also informed by the Garda authorities that, as of end of April 2023, a total of 707 Garda members were assigned to Cork City which represents an increase of almost 9% since end December 2015. Division GD SG IN ...