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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: North-South Student Mobility: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Feb 2024)

Mairéad Farrell: I thank Mr. Brownlee. Are there any barriers for that at the moment? Let us take the case where you are in Donegal and are doing your apprenticeship in Derry. This committee is naturally trying to learn as much as possible at the moment and to think of help and solutions as well. Are there any barriers that Mr. Brownlee can see at the moment?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: North-South Student Mobility: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Feb 2024)

Mairéad Farrell: I would like to see as much North-South mobility as possible and breaking down barriers in that sense as well. In relation to the HEA opening statement, one thing that stood out to me and which I thought was quite interesting was that by mode of study, 59% were full-time students and 33% were part-time but 8% were remote students. That is quite fascinating because you would think that if...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: North-South Student Mobility: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Feb 2024)

Mairéad Farrell: Yes. It is such a low figure.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: North-South Student Mobility: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Feb 2024)

Mairéad Farrell: That is very interesting. The more we can do on that, the better. The Department and the co-centred programme are quite interesting. It is good to see. I have met with different researchers who work collaboratively North and South in different universities and they have talked of the full benefits of doing that research in the longer term. Those co-centres are a recent thing. They are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: North-South Student Mobility: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Feb 2024)

Mairéad Farrell: That is good. I will finish on a question on accommodation. It is obviously something that keeps coming up for students from the North and their ability to come to the South, together with a whole range of other issues. This is something that is coming up more. When I spoke to a university in the North, it said a reason it saw more students coming to that university was that it was...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: North-South Student Mobility: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Feb 2024)

Mairéad Farrell: The Department mentioned this a lot-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: North-South Student Mobility: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Feb 2024)

Mairéad Farrell: If the Department does not have every response-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: North-South Student Mobility: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Feb 2024)

Mairéad Farrell: I have questions with the Minister this evening. As reference was made to this in the statement, I thought I would ask about it. If Mr. McKenna could back with some information, that would be fantastic and I thank him.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (27 Feb 2024)

Mairéad Farrell: 26. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the work that has been carried out to fast track the delivery of the proposed new veterinary school. [9111/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Accommodation (27 Feb 2024)

Mairéad Farrell: 29. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the work his Department has carried out to promote the new guidelines in relation to student digs accommodation. [9110/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Reform (27 Feb 2024)

Mairéad Farrell: 34. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the measures he is taking to address the current shortcomings in the provision of mental health supports for third level institutions. [9112/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (27 Feb 2024)

Mairéad Farrell: 43. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason some of the craft apprenticeship curriculum course syllabuses are almost 15 years old; and the steps he will take to modernise them. [9108/24]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Military Aircraft (27 Feb 2024)

Mairéad Farrell: 55. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the steps taken to ensure that neither of two US military aircraft (details supplied) were on intelligence gathering missions, in contravention of Irish Government prohibitions, on 11, 12 and 15 February 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8768/24]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Inland Fisheries (27 Feb 2024)

Mairéad Farrell: 81. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if it is the latent policy of the inland fisheries division to legitimise all anthropogenic freshwater fish introductions in County Galway (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8827/24]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Inland Fisheries (27 Feb 2024)

Mairéad Farrell: 82. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if officials in the inland fisheries division are content to see a population of pacu, conserved in Garadice Lake and the Shannon-Erne Waterway under the Conservation of and Prohibition on Sale of Coarse Fish By-Law No. 806 of 2006 (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8828/24]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Consultations (27 Feb 2024)

Mairéad Farrell: 83. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the reason the appropriate assessment screening document was not made available to angling stakeholders during the four-week consultation period (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8829/24]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Inland Fisheries (27 Feb 2024)

Mairéad Farrell: 84. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if officials in the inland fisheries division plan to conduct retrospective appropriate assessment screenings on the Conservation of and Prohibition on Sale of Coarse Fish By-Law No. 806 of 2006 and the Conservation of Pike By-Law No. 809 of 2006 for SAC/Natura 2000 waterbodies, when reviewing the said by-laws as per...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Student Accommodation (27 Feb 2024)

Mairéad Farrell: 137. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 104 of 7 February and 220 of 20 February 2024, if he will identify those Irish-registered companies involved directly or indirectly in purpose-built student accommodation, for which the ISIF or a subsidiary thereof holds an equity stake; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9334/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Collection (27 Feb 2024)

Mairéad Farrell: 144. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of contracts for service workers in RTÉ that have had tax deduced at source through PAYE by the Revenue Commissioners since 1980; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8837/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Collection (27 Feb 2024)

Mairéad Farrell: 145. To ask the Minister for Finance the validation process used by the Revenue Commissioners to validate written RTÉ contracts for employment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8838/24]