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- Select Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 45 - Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Revised) (9 Jul 2025) James Lawless: I know.
- Select Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 45 - Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Revised) (9 Jul 2025) James Lawless: Yes.
- Select Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 45 - Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Revised) (9 Jul 2025) James Lawless: Absolutely.
- Select Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 45 - Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Revised) (9 Jul 2025) James Lawless: Absolutely. Some work is being done on external authenticators. We will come back to the Deputy on that. As regards the teacher model, I am keen to take up that discussion further. It is something I would like to explore. If the Deputy wants to arrange something, I would be happy to do that as well. We will have to engage with the unions as well and see what the views of the...
- Select Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 45 - Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Revised) (9 Jul 2025) James Lawless: On disability and enabling students, there is also the disability access route to education, DARE, programme, for higher education. One of the ways that works is that 5% of places are ring-fenced for students with disabilities, and within that 5% students with disabilities are competing with each other, not other students. That is one way to level the playing field or an attempt to. There...
- Select Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 45 - Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Revised) (9 Jul 2025) James Lawless: There is a technological university support fund for the provision of accommodation and there is engagement going on between the Department and the TUs on that. It as at preliminary business case stage so that is being worked through. I am putting a lot of emphasis on State-sponsored student accommodation but the private sector is also free to take up the guidelines I produced and begin to...
- Select Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 45 - Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Revised) (9 Jul 2025) James Lawless: Yes. We can do a note for the Deputy on that as well. We will get that to him.
- Select Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 45 - Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Revised) (9 Jul 2025) James Lawless: Yes.
- Select Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 45 - Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Revised) (9 Jul 2025) James Lawless: I have extended it. It will go for Cabinet approval-----
- Select Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 45 - Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Revised) (9 Jul 2025) James Lawless: Yes. We can get a note to the Deputy on that.
- Select Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 45 - Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Revised) (9 Jul 2025) James Lawless: That is a very important project. I have seen the difference it makes. I visited the Trinity Centre for People with Intellectual Disabilities, the Field of Dreams in Cork and others. It is amazing.
- Select Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 45 - Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Revised) (9 Jul 2025) James Lawless: I thank the Deputy. On digs, the current model has a licensing agreement. That is standardised and prepared by the Department. It is made available to all digs providers. They operate under the rent-a-room scheme mostly. There is a Revenue tax relief for them if they do that. The idea is to encourage people in any walk of life but often older people who have a spare room and are living...
- Select Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 45 - Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Revised) (9 Jul 2025) James Lawless: There is where the educational institute as an enormous institution has to come to me with plans. Technically, it actually has to come to the HEA with plans. I am very ambitious for that campus. I would love to see that developed to its full capacity. There is a great opportunity there. The local authority is heavily engaged with it as well. The soccer club also has plans to move onto...
- Select Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 45 - Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Revised) (9 Jul 2025) James Lawless: There are a couple of questions there. As regards the adult educator issue, €6 million is paid out by my Department to SOLAS for the adult educators. There are additional moneys in this revision as part of the FET pay structures there, so €6 million is being provided. I am aware of the protest and am engaging with the group. I am happy to meet them if they wish to arrange....
- Select Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 45 - Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Revised) (9 Jul 2025) James Lawless: We might do that. I think that is worth doing. On CERN, the Deputy asked about C5. That is close to my heart as well. That again epitomises our ambition. Really, we should be taking our place at CERN and we are now, thankfully. It is something I have long campaigned for. I was pleased to be able to do that when I became a Minister. We are joining that as of this month, I think, but...
- Select Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 45 - Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Revised) (9 Jul 2025) James Lawless: Absolutely, because it is an ongoing commitment. We are joining as associate members. I share the aspiration that we would become full members, but the feedback from the physics community that are closest to this is that we are probably not ready yet to go the full way because there is an expectation around the level of activity on projects and researchers and engagement from the nation...
- Select Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 45 - Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Revised) (9 Jul 2025) James Lawless: The Deputy is dead right. There was a measure brought in recently, and I think there was general cross-party support for it, to reduce the length of the typical student lease to 41 weeks from 51 weeks, but that does not suit everybody either. We may begin to see the advent, particularly with the increase of purpose-built student accommodation, of a change to the typical student experience...
- Select Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 45 - Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Revised) (9 Jul 2025) James Lawless: That is true as well, yes.
- Select Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 45 - Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Revised) (9 Jul 2025) James Lawless: Definitely. That is a good point.
- Select Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 45 - Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Revised) (9 Jul 2025) James Lawless: Your own ETB, LMETB, is exemplary. I visited it with you, both the advanced centre and Dundalk IT but also the ETB centre for advanced manufacturing. They are an outstanding example. I know they have been ambitious to do a lot more as well. There is an increase of €40 million on 2024. In terms of the capital allocation to the FET sector overall, there is €106 million...