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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Business of Joint Committee (30 May 2023)
Paul Kehoe: The committee, today, is meeting in public session in Committee Room 2. I remind members to ensure their mobile phones are switched off as they interfere with broadcasting. Are the minutes of the meeting of 23 May agreed to? Agreed. I propose we suspend for two minutes to bring in our witness.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Professional Accreditation of Higher Education Courses: Discussion (30 May 2023)
Paul Kehoe: The minutes of our previous meeting are agreed. On behalf of the committee, I welcome: Dr. Padraig Walsh, chief executive, Quality and Qualifications Ireland, QQI; Ms Ginny Hanrahan, chief executive and registrar of CORU; Professor Orla Sheils, vice-provost and chief academic officer of Trinity College Dublin, representing the Irish Universities Association, IUA; Ms Mary McHugh,...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Professional Accreditation of Higher Education Courses: Discussion (30 May 2023)
Paul Kehoe: I thank Ms Hanrahan very much for that, and what better way to spend her last day than before an Oireachtas committee. How exciting it is. If we had known, we would have had a bouquet of flowers.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Professional Accreditation of Higher Education Courses: Discussion (30 May 2023)
Paul Kehoe: I thank Professor Sheils very much and call Ms McHugh.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Professional Accreditation of Higher Education Courses: Discussion (30 May 2023)
Paul Kehoe: That completes the witness statements. I now call on our first committee member to ask questions. Deputy Mairéad Farrell will be followed by Deputy Jim O'Callaghan.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Professional Accreditation of Higher Education Courses: Discussion (30 May 2023)
Paul Kehoe: Yes, the Deputy can go ahead.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Professional Accreditation of Higher Education Courses: Discussion (30 May 2023)
Paul Kehoe: I have a question for Ms Hanrahan. Does CORU have any processes in place for students who have trained and graduated from Northern Ireland or farther afield who then want to come to Ireland to work? Is that an issue? Does CORU recognise their qualifications?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Professional Accreditation of Higher Education Courses: Discussion (30 May 2023)
Paul Kehoe: Does anyone else on the panel wish to reply to my question as well?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Professional Accreditation of Higher Education Courses: Discussion (30 May 2023)
Paul Kehoe: I refer to the crisis in recruitment. We all know what is happening out there. It comes to my office as a public representative and everything like that and I go to the HSE and it is like a circle. Has CORU been equipped with enough resources as an organisation to meet the demand? What additional help, assistance or resources does CORU need?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Professional Accreditation of Higher Education Courses: Discussion (30 May 2023)
Paul Kehoe: Have any Ukrainian people who have come in had any qualifications to work the Ukrainian community? What about the refugee community?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Professional Accreditation of Higher Education Courses: Discussion (30 May 2023)
Paul Kehoe: I thank the witnesses for coming before the committee today. The discussion has been both very productive and beneficial to the work of the committee. I specifically welcome Ms Hanrahan and I wish her the very best of luck. I hope her staff are doing something nice for her this evening. I hope the next part of her life or her career after her retirement will be happy and, most...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Professional Accreditation of Higher Education Courses: Discussion (30 May 2023)
Paul Kehoe: On behalf of the committee, I welcome Ms Tanya Kenny, principal officer, and Ms Fiona O'Byrne, principal officer, Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science. The officials are here to brief the committee on the professional accreditation of higher education, HE, courses with specific reference to the health and social care professions. The format of the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Professional Accreditation of Higher Education Courses: Discussion (30 May 2023)
Paul Kehoe: Okay. First we have Deputy Jim O'Callaghan.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Professional Accreditation of Higher Education Courses: Discussion (30 May 2023)
Paul Kehoe: The Senator can get back to me through the committee secretariat and we can-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Professional Accreditation of Higher Education Courses: Discussion (30 May 2023)
Paul Kehoe: I thank the officials for updating the committee today on this issue. It has clarified a number of areas for the members. I also thank the witnesses who appeared before us in session 1.
- Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Public Sector Pensions (30 May 2023)
Paul Kehoe: 135. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to outline the next steps in the process for awarding the 2% increase in the An Post pension, agreed on 1 January 2022, following the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform providing his consent on this matter on 8 September 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25582/23]
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (30 May 2023)
Paul Kehoe: 444. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the current status of the working family payment for a person (details supplied); when a decision will be made; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25575/23]