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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Labour Market (25 Jun 2024)

Bernard Durkan: I had in mind looking in the most positive way into that crystal ball, with a view to identifying the most likely outcomes in the situation that is presenting, and on that basis making a good stab or guess - more than a guess, in fact - at what is likely to happen in the future, given the trends.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Student Accommodation (25 Jun 2024)

Bernard Durkan: I thank the Minister.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Labour Market (25 Jun 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 68. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which he continues to identify and meet the demand in the workplace, through the higher education sector, with particular reference to identification of the areas now most urgently requiring employees; his views on whether a sufficient supply of appropriately qualified graduates continues to be available to meet those demands; and...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Labour Market (25 Jun 2024)

Bernard Durkan: I have raised this question on a number of occasions before and I believe it is important. I am asking about the extent to which an adequate supply of graduates or suitably qualified postgraduates are available to meet the demands of the workplace at the moment and as we go forward.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Student Accommodation (25 Jun 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 62. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the provisions being made, or that will be made, to meet the full requirements of student accommodation adjacent to schools or colleges; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27034/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Student Accommodation (25 Jun 2024)

Bernard Durkan: Regarding the accommodation information that may be available, have any universities or third level institutions been identified? For instance, Maynooth University has already been identified and has achieved some progress in that area. The previous Minister made that information available to the House. Does that apply to any other third level institutions?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Student Accommodation (25 Jun 2024)

Bernard Durkan: What is the degree to which it is anticipated the need can be met in full, insofar as is possible, given the information available about catchment areas of various colleges or universities?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Student Accommodation (25 Jun 2024)

Bernard Durkan: Given the information that is available and the planning permission that has been taken up and is viable at this stage, if numbers can be calculated from that, what number will be available in the next academic year and in subsequent years, with a view to ensuring that we get before the problem before the problem accelerates and gets before us?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Student Accommodation (25 Jun 2024)

Bernard Durkan: Can it be determined where the requirement for student accommodation is most acute? I am only seeking rough figures. To what extent, if any, are planning permissions already indicated likely to meet that requirement?

International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Motion (Resumed) (25 Jun 2024)

Bernard Durkan: I am glad to have an opportunity to speak on this issue. I have listened to the debate so far. I was intrigued by the tone it took at some stages, which was reminiscent of the debate that took place in the UK before Brexit. It would appear that we had decided we were going to assert ourselves in a way we had not known about before, we were going to go it alone and come up with our own...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (25 Jun 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 7. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on housing will meet next. [25390/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (25 Jun 2024)

Bernard Durkan: I thank the Taoiseach for his reply and acknowledge its content. An issue, however, is imminent, with the situation where people have been given notice to quit their rental properties or, sometimes, have had an extension over and above the normal waiting time for eviction. They are going to be removed from their homes. It is going to be done in the next four weeks, to put it at its widest....

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (25 Jun 2024)

Bernard Durkan: These vulture funds are only interested in one thing: getting a hold of the house and property and satisfying their own particular needs.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (25 Jun 2024)

Bernard Durkan: I am sorry, Leas-Cheann Comhairle, for going on about this issue, but it is a really serious issue and I would like the Taoiseach to be able to give some reassurance to those people now.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Jun 2024)

Bernard Durkan: I want to be associated with the remarks that have already been made on the passing of Tommie Gorman and Mícheál Ó Muircheartaigh and recognise the huge contributions they both made in their respective fields to this country’s society, politics, public life and sport in general. While I do that, I might also mention our own colleague, former Deputy Bernard Allen, who...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Jun 2024)

Bernard Durkan: -----with a view to identifying some kind of regularity.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Services (25 Jun 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 476. To ask the Minister for Health the number of skull base surgery cases performed in 2023 and to date in 2024 in Beaumont Hospital, Cork University Hospital and the South Infirmary Victoria Hospital, through the National Cancer Control Programme, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27141/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Admissions (25 Jun 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 527. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which he continues to pursue the objective of providing more graduates in both the academic and technical sectors in the future; if he has identified specific targets in this area; the extent to which those targets are being met; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27246/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Admissions (25 Jun 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 528. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which fourth level educational qualifications continue to be advanced in line with requirements, with particular reference to availability of academic graduates; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27247/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Admissions (25 Jun 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 533. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which he proposes to broaden the higher education opportunities for undergraduates with a view to maximisation of their opportunities in the future; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27252/24]