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Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (17 Sep 2025)

Erin McGreehan: The Government has done an awful lot of work on bringing the cost of education down with schemes like free meals and free books. However, another cost that has been placed on parents trying to get their kids back to secondary school is really expensive laptops for each child. Laptops cost from €500 to €700 and even more, and every child who starts secondary school - in the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (17 Sep 2025)

Erin McGreehan: 15. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on children and education will next meet. [48518/25]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Student Accommodation: Discussion (17 Sep 2025)

Erin McGreehan: Everyone is very welcome to our first meeting since our summer break. I ask anyone attending remotely to mute themselves when not contributing so we do not pick up any background noise or feedback. As usual, I remind all those in attendance to ensure their mobile phones are in silent mode or switched off. Members attending remotely are reminded of the constitutional requirement that, in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Student Accommodation: Discussion (17 Sep 2025)

Erin McGreehan: I want to ensure we all keep on the student accommodation issue. We will have a very needed SUSI conversation within the committee, but we want to come out of this meeting with solutions and with the problems made very clear. I want to make sure we stay on affordability, but most definitely on student accommodation because we have a huge problem there. SUSI is most definitely an issue but...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Student Accommodation: Discussion (17 Sep 2025)

Erin McGreehan: Is Deputy O'Connell available? If not we will move to the next speaker. Is the Deputy in the confines of Leinster House?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Student Accommodation: Discussion (17 Sep 2025)

Erin McGreehan: Absolutely. Senator Tully is next.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Student Accommodation: Discussion (17 Sep 2025)

Erin McGreehan: Many questions were covered in the session. What should the target be considering the numbers of students we have? Obviously, not everybody will live in student accommodation while they are students. At the minute we have 49,000 beds and planning applications for a further 13,000. What is the target that we as a committee, the Government and the country should be looking at as a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Student Accommodation: Discussion (17 Sep 2025)

Erin McGreehan: Absolutely. Maybe it is a question we should ask ourselves. If we are looking towards a target and we do not have a right target, we should definitely get a figure.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Student Accommodation: Discussion (17 Sep 2025)

Erin McGreehan: Absolutely. We are very low with the target; I was wondering what the target could or would be. Regarding the need for regulations for digs, the committee has accepted that we need bare-minimum guidelines, but regulations or legislation are by far what we most want. What would they look like? What sorts of regulations have the students' union engaged with their students on, and what...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Student Accommodation: Discussion (17 Sep 2025)

Erin McGreehan: I thank Mr. Roche. Those are my few wee questions. We could ask questions for hours but we will not. I thank Mr. Kindl, Mr. Angland, Mr. O'Mahony, Ms Hall and Mr. Roche for their contributions today. We have all heard very clearly that there are huge challenges for students right across accommodation, the cost of living and so many other issues. The witnesses can hear from us as a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Student Accommodation: Discussion (17 Sep 2025)

Erin McGreehan: I thank the witnesses. We have come to the end of our public session and will now go into private session. Is that agreed? Agreed.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Student Accommodation: Discussion (17 Sep 2025)

Erin McGreehan: Is there a generally accepted percentage, such as 10% or 20%, as a European norm?

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Departmental Expenditure (8 Sep 2025)

Erin McGreehan: 60. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to provide an update on the total funding allocated to County Louth under this Department from 2023 to date, per year in tabular form. [46346/25]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Departmental Funding (8 Sep 2025)

Erin McGreehan: 164. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to provide an update on the total funding allocated to County Louth under this Department from 2023 to date, per year in tabular form. [46358/25]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Cybersecurity Policy (8 Sep 2025)

Erin McGreehan: 210. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of personnel currently being trained to serve in the Joint Cyber Defence Command; the number of staff currently deployed within the command; and the number of personnel expected to be deployed once it becomes fully operational. [44505/25]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (8 Sep 2025)

Erin McGreehan: 211. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence further to Parliamentary Question No. 58 of 12 June 2025, the number of Reserve Defence Force applications received each year from 2020 to date in 2025, in tabular form; and the actions currently being taken to support recruitment to the reserve. [44574/25]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Departmental Expenditure (8 Sep 2025)

Erin McGreehan: 221. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence to provide an update on the total funding allocated to County Louth under this Department from 2023 to date, per year in tabular form. [46345/25]