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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Climate Action and Sustainable Development Education: Discussion. (28 May 2024)
Mairead Farrell: Absolutely. It gives people a level of confidence, which is so important, when they advocate for themselves and others in life in general. That is very interesting. Due to time limitations, I will move on to Ms Adhikari, Mr. Lian and Ms Doyle. In their collaborative opening statement, for which, unfortunately, I was not present, they mentioned the better representation of innovation in...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Climate Action and Sustainable Development Education: Discussion. (28 May 2024)
Mairead Farrell: That makes sense.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Climate Action and Sustainable Development Education: Discussion. (28 May 2024)
Mairead Farrell: Absolutely.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Climate Action and Sustainable Development Education: Discussion. (28 May 2024)
Mairead Farrell: I thank the witnesses for their contributions. I am from Galway city and we have beach clean-ups and we can see the practical impact of their activism.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Climate Action and Sustainable Development Education: Discussion. (28 May 2024)
Jim O'Callaghan: I thank all the students and guests for coming before the committee today. Starting with Mr. Irfan, I would have thought it was a very positive development that we are going to have a separate climate action and sustainable development course at senior cycle. Does he agree with me that there are many younger people who are interested in climate action and the climate crisis and that this...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Climate Action and Sustainable Development Education: Discussion. (28 May 2024)
Jim O'Callaghan: Yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Climate Action and Sustainable Development Education: Discussion. (28 May 2024)
Jim O'Callaghan: Okay. Turning to Ms Adhikari, what would she like to see being covered in this course? I do not know if she has had an opportunity to engage with the Department in respect of the course, but even if she has not, what elements of the whole issue of climate action and sustainable development would she like to see included in the course?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Climate Action and Sustainable Development Education: Discussion. (28 May 2024)
Jim O'Callaghan: Of course, yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Climate Action and Sustainable Development Education: Discussion. (28 May 2024)
Jim O'Callaghan: I thank Ms Adhikari. Moving to Mr. Lian, I am conscious that putting a course on the secondary-cycle level is not just for the purposes of something the State thinks is civically important, although it is. Obviously, the course must also be examined, marked and assessed. It is a serious subject, so we would want to ensure it is properly appraised by markers. Would he view this as being a...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Climate Action and Sustainable Development Education: Discussion. (28 May 2024)
Jim O'Callaghan: Faoi bhrú.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Climate Action and Sustainable Development Education: Discussion. (28 May 2024)
Jim O'Callaghan: Yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Climate Action and Sustainable Development Education: Discussion. (28 May 2024)
Jim O'Callaghan: Yes. Okay.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Climate Action and Sustainable Development Education: Discussion. (28 May 2024)
Jim O'Callaghan: Yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Climate Action and Sustainable Development Education: Discussion. (28 May 2024)
Jim O'Callaghan: Right. Okay.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Climate Action and Sustainable Development Education: Discussion. (28 May 2024)
Jim O'Callaghan: In a query for Ms Doyle, I suppose, ultimately, when we examine the detail of climate change and the climate crisis, we can see that, at its heart, scientific, observable changes are happening. How prominent should the academic and scientific study of it be in the course? With the greatest respect, it cannot just be about activism. If we have a leaving certificate course that is just about...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Climate Action and Sustainable Development Education: Discussion. (28 May 2024)
Jim O'Callaghan: My next question is for Ms Murphy. It is on the third level sector, in respect of which she has expertise. I am surprised there are not specific subjects that correspond with the proposed climate action and sustainable development course. Does Ms Murphy think it is too disparate at third level? Do we need more individual courses that focus on this issue?
- Report of the Joint Committee on Education, Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Motion (23 May 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: I thank each of the three speakers for their valuable contributions. It is nice, on the part of the officials, to hear Tara Kelly and her team acknowledged for the work they put into this report.
- Report of the Joint Committee on Education, Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Motion (23 May 2024)
Question put and agreed to.
- Message From Select Committee (23 May 2024)
- Message From Select Committee (23 May 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: The Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence has completed its consideration of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2024 and has made amendments thereto.