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Select Committee on Education and Skills: Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Apr 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I may need more convincing in respect of why approval of the board is required in section 64 but not in section 65. However, similar to Deputy Conway-Walsh, I will withdraw my amendment and consider what the Minister does on Report Stage.

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Apr 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I will speak to it now. I presume that the Minister would agree with me that the student voice is often relegated. It happens right throughout education. Most of the discussions that take place are about learning, and about those who may learn, without those people having input at the top table. Within all of that, I have to congratulate the Minister for Education, Deputy Foley, today...

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Apr 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I move amendment No. 175: In page 78, line 6, to delete “2” and substitute “3”.

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Apr 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I move amendment No. 184: In page 83, line 27, to delete “2” and substitute “3”.

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Apr 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I move amendment No. 203: In page 108, between lines 20 and 21, to insert the following: “(2) Without prejudice to the generality of subsection (1), An tÚdarás shall prepare or adopt and issue to designated institutions of higher education a policy concerning the sustainable investment of the funds of those institutions, including a prohibition on investing those funds,...

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Apr 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I move amendment No. 204: In page 108, to delete lines 29 and 30.

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Apr 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I move amendment No. 206: In page 108, line 33, to delete “may” and substitute “shall”.

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Apr 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I move amendment No. 208: In page 109, between lines 3 and 4, to insert the following: “Ministerial directions 127. (1) Subject to the requirements of this section, the Minister may give a direction in writing to An tÚdarás to prepare guidelines, codes or policies under section 126(1). (2) The Minister shall, in the interests of procedural fairness, give a notice in...

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Apr 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: "Ah go on."

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Council of Ireland (26 Apr 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 827. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there are plans to allow student teachers that are already registered with the Teaching Council to keep their council registration number though availing of a renewal of their registration upon qualification rather than being obliged to re-register as is the case under the current system; and if she will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (26 Apr 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 830. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans for the way in which the July provision will be offered in 2022; and if pupils will be offered both home and school based July provision. [19451/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes (26 Apr 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 981. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if access to community employment scheme work for Ukrainian refugees can be provided before they have completed 12 months on benefits. [19458/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Apr 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I thank the witnesses for their presentations. When officials from the Department of Education appeared before us a number of months ago, I asked them what the main difference was between the time I did the leaving certificate in 1994 and the leaving certificate now. The suggestion from the Department was that it was not different in any radical way. At its inception, the leaving...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Irish Language (26 Apr 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 956. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans for Irish language exemptions for Ukrainian students; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21184/22]