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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Accreditation for the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland Facility in Bahrain: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Apr 2014)

Jim D'Arcy: ...say it does not exist. In 2006, when we last visited Bahrain, Giovanni Trapattoni had not yet been appointed manager of the Irish soccer team. Maybe it is time to get back out there again. The NUI has external examiners out there, and that is very good, but maybe they could pay another visit.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Accreditation for the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland Facility in Bahrain: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Apr 2014)

Jim D'Arcy: .... Mr. Tom Collins and I are friends. As Professor Kelly might know, he served as a very good president of Dundalk Institute of Technology, DKIT, of which I was a board member. Then he went to NUI Maynooth and he has a great reputation. I was very sad when I met Professor Collins and he was very distressed about what had happened. He felt diminished by what had happened in Bahrain....

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Sep 2011)

Jim D'Arcy: ...level. I do not know the seven members of the Irish Universities Association council, but I know the chairman of the working group which produced the report, Tom Collins, a former president of NUI, Maynooth who is now in Bahrain heading the Royal College of Surgeons programme there, and I have the greatest of respect for him. The report refers to the practice of teaching to the exam....

Seanad: Order of Business. (14 Sep 2011)

Jim D'Arcy: .... Project maths is very welcome but we should make sure it does not lead to dumbing down. I will finish by mentioning all students starting their third level studies. I was out at the campus of NUI Maynooth twice this week, and the enthusiasm and the sense of hope and self-belief was very strong. Thinking of this broken country, I was reminded of the words of T. S. Eliot: "What are the...