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Seanad: Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Report Stage (1 Mar 2023)

Annie Hoey: ...that. It would be a disincentive to avail of it because they do not believe they would be able to financially survive on 70% of what they have. What comes with leaving such a situation are legal fees, counselling and accommodation, all of which are prohibitively expensive. Many of these women will be leaving with children which, obviously, increases the costs significantly. Women who...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Third Level Fees (27 Apr 2022)

Annie Hoey: ...10% of all the Irish GEM students responded to it over a couple of days, which is statistically significant. Some 92% of them said they require external financial support to pay the university fees and we all know how much those university fees are; they are €16,000 per year to study GEM. That is colossal money. It is €64,000 that they have to take out as a loan. Some 74%...

Seanad: Funding for Ukrainian Students in Irish Universities: Statements (27 Apr 2022)

Annie Hoey: ...costs? I have no doubt that the community will step in to support those students, as we have seen throughout the country, but will there be a specific funding stream apart from the waiving of fees and so on? There may also be Russian students coming here to look for education, fleeing to Ireland as the conflict continues. Has there been any conversation around support for Russian...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Feb 2022)

Annie Hoey: ...get their qualifications. I was glad to hear that the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, Deputy Harris, will bring proposals to the Cabinet on the cost of fees but we must be honest and say that the road ran out a long time ago on the funding crisis in higher education. The Cassells report, published in 2016, which I have mentioned before in this...

Seanad: Sea-Fisheries (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Second Stage (9 Feb 2022)

Annie Hoey: ...officer will be assigned at the authority. A period of 30 days is available in which to submit an appeal to the appeals officer. The appeal must be in writing from the master and is subject to a fee which is yet to be determined. The issue raised during pre-legislative scrutiny was that the Bill does not address concerns regarding the balance of probabilities providing the required...

Seanad: Forestry Licensing: Statements (11 Nov 2021)

Annie Hoey: ...support it rather than holding it back. We need a public campaign to show the great benefits of forests to encourage more public support. As I said the last time when we discussed this, I have grave concerns about fees and costs being used as a deterrent. I am still of a view that that is really what the fees are for. I want to put my concerns about the fees and how they impact people...

Joint Committee On Health: Impacts of Covid-19 on Youth Mental Health and Psychological Services: Discussion (6 Jul 2021)

Annie Hoey: ...I am increasingly of the opinion that things like unpaid internships and unpaid requirements for people to qualify are unethical because it is a financial barrier by another name. My thoughts on fees are well known but unpaid internships and training are unethical and they are locking people out of the sector. We are talking about young people having a lack of hope and feeling very...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare: Department of Health (9 Jun 2021)

Annie Hoey: ...from the Covid-19 pandemic? The conversation has sped along when it comes to telemedicine. Have the witnesses any further thoughts on that? I will follow up Deputy Shortall's question around user fees as I know the witness was tight on time. She might want to elaborate on that. There has been quite a lively outcry online relating to consultant Sláintecare contracts, so what is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare: Department of Health (9 Jun 2021)

Annie Hoey: I know Deputy Shortall asked about the elimination of fees. We have a few seconds to spare if the witness wants to elaborate on that.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (31 May 2021)

Annie Hoey: ...Education for All campaign. Other Senators may have passed representatives of the union outside the gates of Leinster House this morning. At €3,000, Irish students are now paying the highest fees in Europe. When I was president of USI in 2015 and 2016, we campaigned against an increase in the student contribution fee. It is, obviously, a position about which I still feel...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (26 Feb 2021)

Annie Hoey: ...and instead be welcomed into the heart of our communities. The plan to dismantle direct provision presents an opportunity that we must not miss. I want to mention the issue of Gaeltacht fees for students. Students in Hibernia College are having an issue with being charged a Gaeltacht fee of €650 for a mandatory two-week course online. The original fee was €750. Calls...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (12 Feb 2021)

Annie Hoey: ...is causing an awful lot of stress for these students and their families. Another matter that has been brought my attention by students and their parents is the ongoing issue of having to pay large fees for student accommodation on campus which they cannot then access because they have been instructed to stay at home. Many people have prepaid for this year or this semester. I know that...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Feb 2021)

Annie Hoey: ...we going to recognise student nurses, radiographers, healthcare assistants and students completing vital work in the healthcare system? What are we going to do for the students who may face repeat fees in order to repeat their student placements?

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Third Level Education (15 Dec 2020)

Annie Hoey: ...the need to address the issue around higher education funding being potentially lost to students who withdraw from their courses and the knock-on consequences that this will have not only for free fees - a term I use lightly - but also for their access to Student Universal Support Ireland, SUSI, grants. There is a certain point, usually at the end of October, by which students must...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Dec 2020)

Annie Hoey: ...who is not in the room, who is not in the degree programme or who is not able to take on a learning opportunity because there are financial barriers in place. Those financial barriers are not only fees. It is a financial barrier to not be able to afford to take unpaid placement. If we want to build an Ireland of equals and opportunities for everyone, we have to think beyond just getting...

Seanad: Technological Universities Agenda: Statements (2 Dec 2020)

Annie Hoey: ...spoke about the TUs being an opportunity for the regions and for people to be able to access education. It would be remiss of me not to speak about my second favourite topic, which is funding and fees and how people are able to access higher education. We have the second highest fees in Europe and, if and when Brexit finally topples over the line, we will have the highest fees in Europe....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital (18 Nov 2020)

Annie Hoey: I know Mr. Gunning has given an estimate of legal fees, which will be €15 million up to 2022. How much has been spent in 2020 so far on legal fees?

Seanad: Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Sep 2020)

Annie Hoey: ...frivolous or vexatious appeals or appeals that are without substance or foundation. I am led to believe that these are the correct legal terms for such things. I do not believe, however, that fees, restrictions or limitations on those who may make appeals are effective ways in which to deal with them. I know we will discuss fees at a later point. The amendments tabled by Senators...

Seanad: Safe Reopening of Tertiary Sector and Key Priorities for Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Statements (24 Sep 2020)

Annie Hoey: ...being paid. She cannot eat a clap. The candles in people's windows are not going to pay her heating bill. It is unacceptable that we have student nurses who are not being paid. We already know that our fees are among the highest in Europe. The Minister has said those fees are simply too high. The Cassells report was launched when I was president of the Union of Students in Ireland....

Seanad: Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2020: Second Stage (23 Sep 2020)

Annie Hoey: ...education, and now, with the very first piece of environmental legislation, giving Senators barely 12 hours between the official publication of the Bill and the submission deadline for amendments. It feels perhaps that it has been decided the contributions we in this House make on the issue are not actually worthy of a substantive debate. I am particularly disappointed at this attitude...