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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Student Accommodation: Discussion (17 Sep 2025)

Erin McGreehan: Everyone is very welcome to our first meeting since our summer break. I ask anyone attending remotely to mute themselves when not contributing so we do not pick up any background noise or feedback. As usual, I remind all those in attendance to ensure their mobile phones are in silent mode or switched off. Members attending remotely are reminded of the constitutional requirement that, in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Student Accommodation: Discussion (17 Sep 2025)

Erin McGreehan: I want to ensure we all keep on the student accommodation issue. We will have a very needed SUSI conversation within the committee, but we want to come out of this meeting with solutions and with the problems made very clear. I want to make sure we stay on affordability, but most definitely on student accommodation because we have a huge problem there. SUSI is most definitely an issue but...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Student Accommodation: Discussion (17 Sep 2025)

Erin McGreehan: Is Deputy O'Connell available? If not we will move to the next speaker. Is the Deputy in the confines of Leinster House?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Student Accommodation: Discussion (17 Sep 2025)

Erin McGreehan: Absolutely. Senator Tully is next.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Student Accommodation: Discussion (17 Sep 2025)

Erin McGreehan: Many questions were covered in the session. What should the target be considering the numbers of students we have? Obviously, not everybody will live in student accommodation while they are students. At the minute we have 49,000 beds and planning applications for a further 13,000. What is the target that we as a committee, the Government and the country should be looking at as a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Student Accommodation: Discussion (17 Sep 2025)

Erin McGreehan: Is there a generally accepted percentage, such as 10% or 20%, as a European norm?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Student Accommodation: Discussion (17 Sep 2025)

Erin McGreehan: Absolutely. Maybe it is a question we should ask ourselves. If we are looking towards a target and we do not have a right target, we should definitely get a figure.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Student Accommodation: Discussion (17 Sep 2025)

Erin McGreehan: Absolutely. We are very low with the target; I was wondering what the target could or would be. Regarding the need for regulations for digs, the committee has accepted that we need bare-minimum guidelines, but regulations or legislation are by far what we most want. What would they look like? What sorts of regulations have the students' union engaged with their students on, and what...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Student Accommodation: Discussion (17 Sep 2025)

Erin McGreehan: I thank Mr. Roche. Those are my few wee questions. We could ask questions for hours but we will not. I thank Mr. Kindl, Mr. Angland, Mr. O'Mahony, Ms Hall and Mr. Roche for their contributions today. We have all heard very clearly that there are huge challenges for students right across accommodation, the cost of living and so many other issues. The witnesses can hear from us as a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Student Accommodation: Discussion (17 Sep 2025)

Erin McGreehan: I thank the witnesses. We have come to the end of our public session and will now go into private session. Is that agreed? Agreed.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Consultations (17 Jul 2025)

Erin McGreehan: 17. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will report on the public engagement event he hosted on accelerating infrastructure; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39950/25]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: National Development Plan (17 Jul 2025)

Erin McGreehan: 58. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform for an overview of the progress made to date under National Strategic Outcome 10 of the National Development Plan 2021-2030; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39951/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (17 Jul 2025)

Erin McGreehan: 129. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the actions underway in primary schools to ensure that children have adequate digital literacy skills. [40002/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (17 Jul 2025)

Erin McGreehan: 171. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the accommodations currently in place for visually impaired students sitting the Leaving Certificate examinations. [40001/25]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Medical Cards (16 Jul 2025)

Erin McGreehan: I thank the Minister of State for being here. I will speak about medical cards specifically for cancer patients. I will ask the Department to do something really incredible for cancer patients, which is something we most definitely can fix. It is to simplify the medical card application for people with cancer. We already made adaptions to the application process, which worked well for...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Medical Cards (16 Jul 2025)

Erin McGreehan: Absolutely. There have been huge improvements over the past couple of years. I will go back to the fact that people with cancer are recovering. We have more cancer survivors than ever before. That means they are leaving treatment, are healthy and are getting back to being economic actors who are delivering back to the State. I ask that when we look at cancer, we help patients with cancer...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Student Accommodation: Discussion (15 Jul 2025)

Erin McGreehan: Apologies have been received from Deputy Brendan Smith and Senator Paul Daly. Everyone is welcome. I ask anyone attending remotely to mute themselves when not contributing so we do not pick up any background noise or feedback. As usual, I remind all those in attendance to ensure their mobile phones are on silent or switched off. Members attending remotely are reminded of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Student Accommodation: Discussion (15 Jul 2025)

Erin McGreehan: I thank Mr. Lemass and call Ms Orla Nugent from the Higher Education Authority to make her opening statement.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Student Accommodation: Discussion (15 Jul 2025)

Erin McGreehan: We might come back on that, but we are out of time.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Student Accommodation: Discussion (15 Jul 2025)

Erin McGreehan: We will go very briefly to Mr. McCaffrey, but we can come back to it.