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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: WorldSkills Competition 2019: Discussion (24 Sep 2019)

Fiona O'Loughlin: It seems that there needs to be greater educational awareness, not just for the students but for the parents and for the schools, about the opportunities that exist when we think about the world that will open up to us in terms of new jobs opportunities. It was highlighted earlier by Mr. McLoughlin that we need interchangeability between courses so that people can start off something and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: WorldSkills Competition 2019: Discussion (24 Sep 2019)

Fiona O'Loughlin: We will deal with some of the correspondence.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: WorldSkills Competition 2019: Discussion (24 Sep 2019)

Fiona O'Loughlin: As Mr. Brownlee did not indicate his wish to comment, does he wish to comment now?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: WorldSkills Competition 2019: Discussion (24 Sep 2019)

Fiona O'Loughlin: I thank Mr. Brownlee. It has been our pleasure. We will go outside now and will resume afterwards in private session. We may not deal with everything that is on the agenda because we have a large amount of correspondence to get through after we pose for a photograph. We will get through some of the correspondence.

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Mental Health: Discussion (24 Sep 2019)

Fiona O'Loughlin: It is for me to try.

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Mental Health: Discussion (24 Sep 2019)

Fiona O'Loughlin: I apologise for being late but I was elsewhere dealing with educational issues. I must also apologise as I am going to have to leave early for the same reason. When I was in my office getting my papers, I had the opportunity to listen to Mr. Reilly, and I know Mr. Joyce has been before the Committee on Education and Skills a number of times at meetings instigated by Senator Kelleher, who...

Agriculture: Motion [Private Members] (18 Sep 2019)

Fiona O'Loughlin: Sometimes the term "crisis" can be bandied around but that is not the position in this instance. The beef sector in Ireland, one of the largest and best in Europe and in the world, is not only in crisis and under threat but in danger of disappearing if positive action is not taken soon. The downward spiral in beef prices, despite being very well flagged to the Government - which ignored it,...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (18 Sep 2019)

Fiona O'Loughlin: There is a funding crisis in disability services at the moment. Younger people and older people with disabilities and their families and teachers are being very much let down. My colleague, Deputy Micheál Martin, raised the issue relating to problems in education and the Joint Committee on Education and Skills has shone a light on reduced timetables. In early intervention, the...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (18 Sep 2019)

Fiona O'Loughlin: I have put it in but it has not been taken.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Business of Joint Committee (12 Sep 2019)

Fiona O'Loughlin: I welcome Deputy Ó Laoghaire to his first meeting of the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Education and Skills and thank Deputy Funchion for the role she played as a member of the committee. We will now go into private session.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Eligibility Criteria of Student Universal Support Ireland: Discussion (12 Sep 2019)

Fiona O'Loughlin: Our business today is No. 10 on our agenda, engagement with stakeholders on the eligibility, application procedure and appeals process of the Student Universal Support Ireland, SUSI, grant. On behalf of the committee, I welcome the three stakeholders. We are joined by Ms Lorna Fitzpatrick, president of the Union of Students in Ireland, USI. She is very welcome to her first meeting with the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Eligibility Criteria of Student Universal Support Ireland: Discussion (12 Sep 2019)

Fiona O'Loughlin: I thank Ms Fitzpatrick for her contribution. I now invite Ms Fanning to make an opening statement on behalf of the Irish Second-Level Students Union.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Eligibility Criteria of Student Universal Support Ireland: Discussion (12 Sep 2019)

Fiona O'Loughlin: I now turn to the man who will solve all of our problems, Mr. Philip Connolly from SUSI.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Eligibility Criteria of Student Universal Support Ireland: Discussion (12 Sep 2019)

Fiona O'Loughlin: I thank Mr. Connolly. It is important to stress the point that SUSI does not have a policy-making role and that its representatives are here to discuss its operations. Having said that, I have no doubt that there will be plenty of questions from members.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Eligibility Criteria of Student Universal Support Ireland: Discussion (12 Sep 2019)

Fiona O'Loughlin: I thank Senator Gallagher. I call Senator Gavan.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Eligibility Criteria of Student Universal Support Ireland: Discussion (12 Sep 2019)

Fiona O'Loughlin: I am not going to delay proceedings. My colleagues asked very pertinent questions and made very pertinent comments. We have had three really good presentations. In response to Ms Fitzpatrick, I support the recommendations that have been made and I support the nine private institutions that are receiving SUSI fees. When we had the Wake-up SUSI hearings here, we discovered that when a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Eligibility Criteria of Student Universal Support Ireland: Discussion (12 Sep 2019)

Fiona O'Loughlin: I thank Ms Fanning. To follow up on what she said about the private colleges, students attending them receive the same Quality and Qualifications Ireland, QQI, qualifications as those awarded by the other universities. The principle is that the money should follow the student, not the college. I call Ms Fitzpatrick.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Eligibility Criteria of Student Universal Support Ireland: Discussion (12 Sep 2019)

Fiona O'Loughlin: Ms Fitzpatrick does not need to do that. She should focus on whatever she believes adds value to the discussion.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Eligibility Criteria of Student Universal Support Ireland: Discussion (12 Sep 2019)

Fiona O'Loughlin: If our guests want to send anything to us after the meeting, we would be happy to circulate it to the members and include it in our final report and recommendations.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Eligibility Criteria of Student Universal Support Ireland: Discussion (12 Sep 2019)

Fiona O'Loughlin: One would imagine so.