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Seanad: Reform of Further Education and Training: Statements (5 Mar 2014)

Averil Power: ...and training sector is not taken into consideration when decisions relating to other sectors are being made, then there can be unintended consequences for that sector. With the establishment of SOLAS, I hope the sector, which, as the Minister of State indicated, has a unique identity, will be given the credence and priority it deserves. On apprenticeships, there is a need for a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Role and Potential of Community and Vocational Education: Discussion (26 Feb 2014)

Averil Power: .... I am encouraged by the fact that there have been developments in bringing it all together. One of the other providers in my area provides for thousands of people every year on FETAC, SOLAS and Safe Pass courses. I asked them yesterday what was the one thing they wanted. All they ask is that bodies like SOLAS, ETBI, QQI and City and Guilds recognise that professional resources exist...

Seanad: Adjournment Debate: Adult Education (20 Nov 2013)

Averil Power: ...not the unintended consequences that the Minister has acknowledged and to discuss the future of the further education and adult education sector and how it fits within his overall vision in terms of SOLAS and the education and training boards. He has acknowledged in the other House the need to recognise the distinct role the further education sector has to play particularly in the current...

Seanad: Adjournment Debate: Adult Education (20 Nov 2013)

Averil Power: ...for Education and Skills, Deputy Quinn, said that it was past time the colleges of further education had a separate identity. The context to bring this about is now in place with the establishment of SOLAS and the merging of the education and training boards and so on. Now is the time to recognise further education as a separate and distinct sector on a statutory footing. It is time to...

Seanad: Further Education and Training Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (3 Jul 2013)

Averil Power: ...in the sector and we need to ensure that the focus is on the learner and on constantly changing the services we provide to make sure that they meet current needs. The strategy to be put in place by SOLAS when it is planning for the full sector gives us the potential to do that. I welcome the fact that the Bill is being passed. As we head into the budget process, I would ask the Minister...

Seanad: Further Education and Training Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (3 Jul 2013)

Averil Power: ...or is any of it to be given to the education and training boards to fund any training provision they might undertake? I seek clarity on these points and also on the issue of when FÁS will be wound up to give SOLAS full responsibility for the sector. FÁS will be gone and SOLAS will have responsibility for the entire sector. I ask what arrangements will be in place in the interim.

Seanad: Further Education and Training Bill 2013: Second Stage (20 Jun 2013)

Averil Power: ...of providers on the other. Having a strong authority looking after policy and ensuring there is a national strategy will be a positive development. While the programmes will be run by other providers and not SOLAS, such co-ordination and strategic oversight will be important in ensuring unnecessary duplication of courses is avoided and courses are matched not only against current skills...

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage (27 Apr 2012)

Averil Power: ...parents who will be seeking work and who will require a great deal of support. These people will need access to activation measures and will need to work with social welfare officers, the staff of SOLAS and others in order that they will have proper individual plans which will ensure that they will obtain meaningful employment rather than just being pushed into low-paid jobs. There is a...