Results 61-80 of 459 for speaker:Jen Cummins

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (15 Jul 2025)

Jen Cummins: 522. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the formulas for the allocation of hours to schools for secretaries and caretakers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39711/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (15 Jul 2025)

Jen Cummins: 953. To ask the Minister for Health the plans to make the shingles vaccine available free of charge to people with compromised immune systems; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39258/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards (15 Jul 2025)

Jen Cummins: 1034. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason there are significant discrepancies in how different ETBs are handling the allocation of hours and contracts for adult educators; his plans to ensure fair and consistent treatment of adult educators across all ETBs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39511/25]

Aircraft Noise (Dublin Airport) Regulation (Transfer of Functions) Bill 2024: Second Stage [Private Members] (10 Jul 2025)

Jen Cummins: In accordance with Standing Order 85(2), the division is postponed until the weekly division time on Wednesday, 16 July 2025.

Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters (10 Jul 2025)

Jen Cummins: I wish to advise the House of the following matters in respect of which notice has been given under Standing Order 39 and the name of the Member in each case: Deputy Catherine Ardagh - To discuss the need for all special schools to accept children at different levels on the autism spectrum. Deputy Robert O'Donoghue - To discuss the need to improve the design of the entrance to the Rush...

Domestic, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence: Statements (10 Jul 2025)

Jen Cummins: In the 1990s, I worked in London at a domestic violence project to support Irish women in my job in a school completion programme. Every single year, we supported children who were growing up in families where domestic violence was an everyday occurrence. My doctoral research found that the number of young people who left school before the leaving certificate was due to violence in the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Pension Parity and Working Conditions for School Secretaries and Caretakers: Fórsa (10 Jul 2025)

Jen Cummins: I am delighted to have the witnesses here today. People may not know but I am a member of Fórsa. I was in the school completion programme branch for a very long time. I was delighted to be at the Fórsa education conference at the Easter break. We in the Social Democrats fully support this strike action. We need to be very clear here. There will be huge disruption but that is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Pension Parity and Working Conditions for School Secretaries and Caretakers: Fórsa (10 Jul 2025)

Jen Cummins: I wish the witnesses the best of luck. I hope it does not get to strike action, but in another way I hope it does because I think enough is enough. There is a point where people have tried everything they can and if this where it has to go, it is where it has to go. I do not want that for the witnesses and I know they do not want it either. However, it does need to be highlighted. I am...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Pension Parity and Working Conditions for School Secretaries and Caretakers: Fórsa (10 Jul 2025)

Jen Cummins: We do not need the historical reasons for it, although it would be good to put it into context; we need to know what the Department is going to do to rectify it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Proposed Redesignation of Schools for Children with Mild General Learning Disabilities: Principals of Special Schools (10 Jul 2025)

Jen Cummins: I am delighted that the witnesses are here today. I thank the other members of the committee for facilitating the invitation. I think it was in May that I visited Ms O'Neill's school for the first time. When I left on my bike I was kind of floating through Crumlin to come back here, thinking what a wonderful and safe place I had just visited. I saw the students there playing in the yard...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Proposed Redesignation of Schools for Children with Mild General Learning Disabilities: Principals of Special Schools (10 Jul 2025)

Jen Cummins: I am delighted that people have been able to engage. The whole point is that if people have knowledge, it means they have a full understanding of what is going on. Because the witnesses are working away nice and quietly and are busy doing what they are supposed to be doing, sometimes it is very difficult to promote this really good work. I am delighted they have had the opportunity to...

Transparency for Supermarket Profits: Motion [Private Members] (9 Jul 2025)

Jen Cummins: In recent days, the Chamber has spoken about the cost of living and how it affects education. To provide the bigger picture of what the cost of living for families is at present, if we look at it through the lens of education, which in my opinion is the foundation for our society, we have voluntary contributions for schools because schools cannot afford to keep the heating on. Parents are...

Select Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 45 - Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Revised) (9 Jul 2025)

Jen Cummins: I am sorry; I keep running in and out. It is just such a busy day.

Select Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 45 - Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Revised) (9 Jul 2025)

Jen Cummins: Would the Minister be able to come back to me about the apprenticeship model for teacher training?

Select Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 45 - Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Revised) (9 Jul 2025)

Jen Cummins: At a later date is totally fine.

Select Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 45 - Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Revised) (9 Jul 2025)

Jen Cummins: I have been contacted by somebody who has contacted several Oireachtas Members about further education and training, the external authenticators and the tax implications they have in comparison with somebody working for the State Examinations Commission. It just does not seem to be the same. Does the Minister have any knowledge of that, and is anything being done to look at it?

Select Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 45 - Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Revised) (9 Jul 2025)

Jen Cummins: I am happy to do that.

Select Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 45 - Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Revised) (9 Jul 2025)

Jen Cummins: That is for the future years as well, as we-----

Select Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 45 - Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Revised) (9 Jul 2025)

Jen Cummins: We did a bit a dive into this. In other European countries, if you go to Germany, for example, you can stay in your accommodation. Often when we talk about students we think they have parents to go back to. Sometimes you are an adult and you are not going back to your parents' home, so it is important that they can stay there and that it is a full immersion in student accommodation. We...

Select Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 45 - Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Revised) (9 Jul 2025)

Jen Cummins: I have talked to a few people who say their summer is ruined because their child has to repeat a module. Students themselves feel the same, so that should be available to them throughout the time.