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

Paul Kehoe: This issue was raised with the committee on our travels.

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

Paul Kehoe: I know the Minister is due to make an announcement on the accommodation issue. There are a large number of colleges with courses that are specific to the college in question and the course is not available anywhere else in Ireland. Optometry in TU Dublin is an example. I think there are between 40 and 50 students on the course. TU Dublin also offers a degree in medical science. On our...

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

Paul Kehoe: On the issue of student accommodation, the Minister spoke about Waterford. On a recent committee visit to the city, the president of SETU told us the college had a site and wanted to build. TU Dublin also wants to build. Site availability is probably the biggest obstacle in that case. When will the Minister make an announcement regarding accommodation for TUs and other universities?

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

Paul Kehoe: The Minister spoke about medicine and veterinary education. I will be parochial in the same way as Deputy Ó Cathasaigh. I have an interest in veterinary education. I studied at Kildalton College and I know it is very much part and parcel of SETU's application for veterinary education. I know the Minister cannot give away too much as there is a process that must be gone through. A...

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

Paul Kehoe: With regard to the Wexford campus, the compulsory purchase order is almost complete. It is going through without any major hiccups. The chief executive of Wexford County Council is in contact with the Department and the Secretary General. He very much appreciates, as do I as a public representative, what the Department is doing. Is the Department working with SETU and other partners on...

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

Paul Kehoe: The Minister understands where I am coming from. It is a small region. We should work with industry and the strengths each county has.

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

Paul Kehoe: The most important part of any capital application is the financial funding commitment. Any time I am on local radio or speaking to local reporters, I am asked whether funding will be available for the construction of the buildings required on any campus.

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

Paul Kehoe: I apologise, as I took a little over six minutes.

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

Paul Kehoe: I will give my two colleagues the same leeway. I know that Deputy Ó Cathasaigh wants to leave, so if Senator Dolan does not mind, I will let him contribute first.

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

Paul Kehoe: Go ahead. That is okay.

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

Paul Kehoe: I understand that.

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

Paul Kehoe: The UK is very envious of the Department we have set up here. I was speaking to a UK Minister and several people involved in university education and they wanted to know how our Department was set up in such a short space of time. Compliments to the Secretary General and all his team, including the Minister. They get plenty of kickback and criticism but credit should be given where due. I...

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

Paul Kehoe: I am aware that the Minister for Education, Deputy Foley, has announced mental health supports and a pilot programme for secondary and primary schools. There is a programme to provide mental health supports to third level institutions. What is the position of the Department on that?

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

Paul Kehoe: I have one more observation. The committee has done considerable work on STEM subjects and produced a report thereon. We have heard some absolutely fantastic contributions from both witnesses and members. The secretariat is working hard on bringing the report to fruition. There will be ten key recommendations and up to 20 altogether. The committee would very much appreciate it if the...

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

Paul Kehoe: I have two observations on that. Gender in STEM was a big issue for our witnesses, along with the importance of apprenticeships. The witnesses were regularly asked when STEM subjects should be introduced to a child. Some replied it should be in secondary school, whereas others disagreed and said it should be in primary school. The question was answered by my daughter when she was watching...

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

Paul Kehoe: It also encourages females at a young age. I thank the Minister and his officials. We have had an extremely informative and productive engagement on topical issues of national importance concerning his Department. The meeting is adjourned. The select committee will meet in public session at 11 a.m. on Tuesday, 27 June 2023.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (21 Jun 2023)

Paul Kehoe: 94. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 488 of 13 June 2023, for a breakdown, by county, of the mentioned 900 school building extensions that were also delivered from 2011 to 2023, by year, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30052/23]

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

Paul Kehoe: I used SETU as an example of technological universities not being allow to take the lead in teacher training courses, but students could save a great deal of money by doing their masters in education to qualify as secondary school teachers at technological universities across the country. They could do part of their courses in a technological university and the other part in a university in...

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

Paul Kehoe: I will follow up on the stipend for PhD students. It is an issue raised in the Irish Universities Association, IUA, report. Will this issue be solved as part of the budgetary process?