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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Climate Action and Sustainable Development Education: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jun 2024)
Sorca Clarke: I thank the witnesses for coming in this morning. They are, as always, most welcome. I want to follow up on a point made by Ms Rush on the background paper. She said that the council had visited four schools. What is the profile of those schools? I am not looking for their location or anything that would make them identifiable but for a profile of the schools involved in that development...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Climate Action and Sustainable Development Education: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jun 2024)
Sorca Clarke: Can Ms Doyle give us an idea of the top three requests from schools? What have they identified as needs that must be met?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Climate Action and Sustainable Development Education: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jun 2024)
Sorca Clarke: The four specific schools that Ms Rush mentioned-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Climate Action and Sustainable Development Education: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jun 2024)
Sorca Clarke: That would be useful information to have. Reference was made to continuing professional development. I acknowledge that the subject is available now but I am interested in how connectivity is developed between the most junior learners in the education system right up into third level. Connections need to be made by the Department and by the schools. How do we make it relevant for...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Climate Action and Sustainable Development Education: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jun 2024)
Sorca Clarke: TUS Athlone is one of my local third level institutions. It had a transition year programme this year, part of which was a module on sustainability in engineering, which was really welcome to see. This is my final question. In terms of primary school, will Ms O'Connor talk about the hours per week that will be spent under the redesign model?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Climate Action and Sustainable Development Education: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jun 2024)
Sorca Clarke: I thank Ms O'Connor.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Climate Action and Sustainable Development Education: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jun 2024)
Sorca Clarke: The reason I ask is that primary schools only have a set number of hours per week. It is in that context that I ask the question.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Climate Action and Sustainable Development Education: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jun 2024)
Sorca Clarke: This is an area where teachers have been particularly to the fore over the last ten or 15 years. The nature table is almost a thing of the past. Pupils now go out into nature and see it for themselves. I am very fortunate to live in an area where we have good biodiversity. There are many bogs around the area. These are wonderful places. It is good to see the younger children in...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Climate Action and Sustainable Development Education: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jun 2024)
Sorca Clarke: I want to go back to the STEM implementation plan. When is the next review of that due?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Climate Action and Sustainable Development Education: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jun 2024)
Sorca Clarke: I refer just to the implementation plan. When is the next review due?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Climate Action and Sustainable Development Education: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jun 2024)
Sorca Clarke: When will the next one be published?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Climate Action and Sustainable Development Education: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jun 2024)
Sorca Clarke: That is the next progress report, but what about the annual review of the plan?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Climate Action and Sustainable Development Education: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jun 2024)
Sorca Clarke: But Ms O'Connor said there was an annual -----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Climate Action and Sustainable Development Education: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jun 2024)
Sorca Clarke: When is the next one due?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Climate Action and Sustainable Development Education: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jun 2024)
Sorca Clarke: Later this year.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Climate Action and Sustainable Development Education: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jun 2024)
Sorca Clarke: I wish to follow up on the response by Ms Hope to the question on student accommodation posed by the Chairman. My colleague, Deputy Mairéad Farrell, has been very active on this issue over recent months. I wonder how effective the Department will be, given that the vast majority of student accommodation is privately owned. Last February, Trinity, DCU and UCD combined had 5,600 units...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Climate Action and Sustainable Development Education: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jun 2024)
Sorca Clarke: What impact can the Department have on the decarbonisation and retrofitting of the accommodation that is privately owned?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Climate Action and Sustainable Development Education: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jun 2024)
Sorca Clarke: What about the existing supply?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Climate Action and Sustainable Development Education: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jun 2024)
Sorca Clarke: I appreciate that, but considering the vast difference that is there at the moment and the length of time construction takes, there will be a reliance on private supply for the foreseeable future in many areas.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Climate Action and Sustainable Development Education: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jun 2024)
Sorca Clarke: Is it the case that there has not been any engagement with the owners? Has there been any engagement with them to see if they have plans to upgrade the accommodation that is there?