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Seanad: Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) (12 Jul 2022)

Alice-Mary Higgins: ...The goals should be our guide and we have only eight to achieve them. In seeking to imbed sustainable development stronger into the Bill I acknowledge that many individual higher education institutions have done extremely good work in respect of the sustainable development goals. I have launched projects in NUI Galway on same. UCC has won awards for its co-operation and partnership...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (12 Jul 2022)

...shift towards a private model. I wish to pick up on a point that Senator Wall also brought up, but which I did not get to. We really need to look at the cost of disability. Dr. Áine Roddy of NUI Galway has published a paper around the cost of autism. It found that, on average, families are spending €28,000 more per year than they would if they were raising a child who is...

Payment of Wages (Amendment) (Tips and Gratuities) Bill 2022 [Seanad]: Second Stage (7 Jul 2022)

Joan Collins: ...of tip theft. This practice was not confined to The Ivy restaurant but was in fact widespread in the hospitality sector. I also want to recognise Dr. Deirdre Curran, the lecturer and researcher in NUI Galway who has produced surveys and reports on the abuse of workers in the hospitality sector, particularly in Galway. I also recognise the One Movement in Galway and Cork and Deirdre...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence (7 Jul 2022) See 1 other result from this debate

Simon Harris: ...the walls of the universities and make them more widely available across society. Professor Crowley has led in that regard. There has also been the good example of the active consent programme in NUI Galway under Pádraig MacNeela. We now have an online hub regarding consent. Any student, parent or teacher can access different information appropriate to them around the whole issue...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Student Accommodation (7 Jul 2022)

Simon Harris: ...Covid pandemic. They are the two most immediate avenues that we can pursue. In addition to the 600 beds I mentioned earlier, another 674 beds are due to become available during the academic year in NUI Galway. The bigger project that I am genuinely working intensively on is to try to put a new model in place to deliver student accommodation. I am saying openly and bluntly that I think...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Student Accommodation (7 Jul 2022) See 2 other results from this debate

Simon Harris: ...of the forthcoming academic year. We believe this figure to be in the region of 600. In addition, the major development of 674 extra bed spaces, which is under way at the National University of Ireland, NUI, Galway, is expected to be delivered later in the academic year. Therefore, while fully accepting the challenges that exist, and of which there is no doubt, we will be starting this...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Accommodation (7 Jul 2022)

Simon Harris: ...proposals they may have identified or be able to identify in relation to any additional student accommodation provision that may be pursued in the short to medium terms and my Department is continuing to liaise with the higher education institutions in this regard. In this context the Department understands that hundreds of additional bed spaces are to be made available by HEIs for...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (6 Jul 2022)

Claire Kerrane: Yesterday, researchers from NUI Galway launched the 2022 edition of the local authority finances website. It shows that Galway County Council has a budget of under €144 million for this year, which is equivalent of €802 per person in Galway. If you look at the counties surrounding Galway, you can see that Mayo has a budget of the equivalent of €1,256 per person, Clare...

Seanad: Electoral Reform Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Jul 2022)

Michael McDowell: ...strongly at Cabinet that something should be done about this. Eventually, there was a change of leader in Fine Gael and Deputy Leo Varadkar succeeded Enda Kenny.In the meantime, Senator Feargal Quinn had asked me to stand for the NUI constituency because he wanted to retire from politics. To progress the Seanad reform project, it was agreed that an implementation group would be...

Seanad: Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Jul 2022)

Michael McDowell: ...comply with a ministerial policy statement, that is in fact deeply corrosive of the notion that, for example, Trinity College, with its 400 year old charter, or the National University of Ireland NUI, with its 100 plus years of independence, is obliged to so comply. It gives the Minister of the day the right to say that he or she is enunciating the policy, and is requesting the HEA's...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Guardian Status (5 Jul 2022) See 1 other result from this answer

Michael Healy-Rae: 542. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when the report following the review by NUI Galway on the guardianship laws in Ireland will be available; the steps that have been taken to ensure that the necessary adjustments are made in the compilation and the delivery of such critical areas of policy to ensure that these are acted upon in a timely manner when required in...

Autism Bill 2022: Second Stage [Private Members] (29 Jun 2022)

Anne Rabbitte: ...occupational therapists, physiotherapists, and speech and language therapists should be added to the critical skills list. They were not on the list; they will be included now. Training behavioural therapists in NUI Galway and not having a behavioural therapist pay scale within the HSE is wrong. I have asked the HSE to add behavioural therapist to the pay scale. We are about autism and...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Working Conditions and Skills Shortages in Tourism and Hospitality Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Jun 2022) See 1 other result from this debate

Niamh Smyth: ...and skills shortages in Ireland's tourism and hospitality sector, which, sadly, we hear a lot about these days. I welcome: Dr. Deirdre Curran, a lecturer with National University of Ireland, NUI, Galway; Mr. Denis Hynes, sector organiser hospitality, SIPTU; Ms Fiona Dunne, national co-ordinator of One Movement, and Mr. Clement Shevlin, sector organiser with SIPTU, from the Irish Congress...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Correspondence (28 Jun 2022)

Norma Foley: ...5th December 2011, a teacher must have been actively undertaking the course of further study on 5th December 2011”. The teacher was not actively undertaking the Postgraduate Diploma in Education course at NUI Maynooth on 5th December 2011, I must advise you that therefore he does not meet the criteria outlined in Circular 0008/2013 for payment of the allowance." There are no...

LGBTQI+ and Equality: Statements (23 Jun 2022)

Malcolm Noonan: ...the firsts in Irish LGBT activism happened in Cork. These include the first national gay conference in 1981, the production of the first AIDS leaflet in 1985, the first National University of Ireland, NUI, college to recognise an LGBT society in 1989, the first Irish lesbian and gay film festival in 1991 and the first Irish LGBT float in a St. Patrick's Day parade in 1992. I thank her...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Secondment Policy in the Civil and Public Service: Engagement with Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (15 Jun 2022)

.... In respect of the recent secondments of two former Secretaries General to posts in third-level institutions, on the expiry of his term as Secretary General, Dr. Fergal Lynch moved on secondment to NUI Galway. On the expiry of Mr. Seán Ó Foghlú’s term as Secretary General he moved on secondment to NUI Maynooth. These appointments were in line with Government...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: National Monuments (14 Jun 2022)

Fintan Warfield: ...individuals such as Tonie Walsh, who have been calling for and encouraging a conversation about having an Irish AIDS memorial for many years. In an address to the National University of Ireland, NUI, Maynooth to mark World AIDS Day in 2016, Mr. Walsh said: What is remembered, lives. Not just the names of our deceased, but their voices, their bright faces are refocused. Lives lived in...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Council of Ireland (14 Jun 2022)

Norma Foley: ...been made available for two seconded teachers and bursaries, awarded through An Chomhairle um Oideachas Gaeltachta agus Gaelscolaíochta (COGG), to support the Máistir Gairmiúil san Oideachas in NUI, Galway. The objective of this support is to work towards increasing the number of post-primary teachers who can deliver high quality Irish medium education across a range of...

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (14 Jun 2022)

Jennifer Whitmore: ...disabled people to participate in juries. This amendment replicates the approach proposed in the Law Reform Commission's 2013 report and was suggested by the Centre for Disability Law and Policy, NUI Galway, during pre-legislative scrutiny.

Seanad: Protection of the Native Irish Honey Bee Bill 2021: Second Stage (2 Jun 2022) See 2 other results from this debate

Vincent P Martin: ...Ireland is the envy of black bee breeders across Europe and ideally, our entire country should become a special area of conservation". We are the last stronghold in Europe. Genetic studies carried out in NUI Galway and Limerick Institute of Technology, funded by the Government and the Native Irish Honey Bee Society, established beyond doubt that our native Irish honeybee has survived on...