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Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Procurement Contracts (28 Feb 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 35. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the measures that are employed in the public procurement process to incentivise low or zero carbon construction and to discourage demolition; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9562/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (28 Feb 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 51. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills which part of the three limbs of the school profile takes specific account of children who can only access the curriculum with SET assistance, due to their complex, additional needs (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9624/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (28 Feb 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 52. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills how a school profile which is directly correlated to, and focused on, pupils with the greatest level of need in the areas of literacy and numeracy will ensure that those will complex additional needs are identified and assisted from the outset of their education; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9625/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (28 Feb 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 53. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills what is the "high quality, verifiable education data" that is being used as the basis for the new SET model; if she can publish that data; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9626/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (28 Feb 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 54. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason data which was used by NCSE/Department of Education since 2017 from the HSE CDNT can no longer be routinely available; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9627/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Building Regulations (28 Feb 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 72. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the technical guidance on building regulations will be updated to allow for timber frame high rise construction; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9559/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Building Regulations (28 Feb 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 73. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when his Department will issue a quantifiable standard rate to measure both the embodied and operational carbon of buildings; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9561/24]

Recent Arson Attacks: Statements (27 Feb 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: Arson is an extremely serious criminal offence. Under section 2 of the Criminal Damage Act 1991, any person convicted of arson on indictment can face a maximum penalty of up to life imprisonment and an unlimited fine. The reason we impose such a serious sentence upon those convicted of arson is because we recognise the danger associated with it. It is remarkable and extremely lucky that,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: North-South Student Mobility: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Feb 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: I thank our guests for coming before the committee. I wish to begin with Mr. Brownlee. His statement refers to the unprecedented growth in further education and training in Ireland, in the South. Is there a similar growth in Northern Ireland?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: North-South Student Mobility: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Feb 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: Is there any reason we do not see the trend replicated in Northern Ireland or is it simply that credit is deserved in the South because of the efforts we have made to expand it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: North-South Student Mobility: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Feb 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: Yes. If we are trying to improve cross-Border co-operation in the area of further education and training, what political steps should Government or the Oireachtas take to try to facilitate that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: North-South Student Mobility: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Feb 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: Is there any issue in respect of co-operation between the two political jurisdictions on the island? Is there any benefit in trying to get the North-South Ministerial Council to expressly deal with third-level education? Is that something that is the ambition of the Government?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: North-South Student Mobility: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Feb 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: That is very interesting. Maybe formalising that could politicise and undermine it to a certain extent. Mr. McKenna is saying that, notwithstanding the absence of formal structures within the North-South Ministerial Council, there is ongoing collaboration and co-operation.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: North-South Student Mobility: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Feb 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: Does Ms Duffy have any views on that from a HEA perspective?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: North-South Student Mobility: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Feb 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: That appears to be what is currently happening to a certain extent. We are not getting the students from Northern Ireland we did in previous decades.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: North-South Student Mobility: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Feb 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: One of the factors that appears to deter students from Northern Ireland from applying to third-level institutions in Ireland is the delay in the announcement of leaving certificate results and the CAO process. Is that a significant factor in deterring students from Northern Ireland?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: North-South Student Mobility: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Feb 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: It is more attractive to have an offer that has been made already. Does anybody else have a view on that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: North-South Student Mobility: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Feb 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: The real difference between the two systems is that in Northern Ireland a student will get a conditional acceptance. No matter how much we expedite the process in respect of the CAO and leaving certificate results, we will never be able to get it back to before June.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: North-South Student Mobility: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Feb 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: Do applicants get that early in the year?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: North-South Student Mobility: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Feb 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: I thank everyone.