Results 1-20 of 332 for sligo speaker:Simon Harris

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 May 2024)

Simon Harris: ...at Waterford University Hospital, and a very eminent and, I think, respected individual by Members across this House, and the retired emergency medicine consultant, Dr. Fergal Hickey from Sligo. The team will work with the team in place in the hospital to manage patient flow and to de-escalate the current pressures being experienced. The reason we are doing that is that we acknowledge...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Apr 2024)

Simon Harris: ...it easy for people to want to live, study and work in the regions. We can set targets nationally and use funding but ultimately we have to win hearts and minds and make sure young people living in Sligo believe young people can continue to live, raise a family, have a job and access a university in Sligo. We also want people from other parts of the country to want to live in Sligo. We...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Apr 2024)

Simon Harris: ..., but I am going to speak for a second and am not going be told to stop talking about certain things. I am going to continue to talk about the fact that this Government has proudly invested in Sligo. From time to time, it might suit others to suggest the contrary. I have been up and down the road to Sligo so many times for so many Government announcements. The Minister, Deputy...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Apr 2024)

Simon Harris: ...in housing is rising in all parts of our country. Decisions we took in Cabinet yesterday to spend more than €300 million of taxpayers' money will help small developers and the local authority in Sligo to build more homes. The investment in the first homes scheme will benefit young people in Sligo. The development waiver will benefit young people in Sligo. The technological...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Apr 2024)

Simon Harris: I first want to welcome the students from the politics and sociology department of Atlantic Technological University, ATU, Sligo to the Dáil today who are guests of Deputy Martin Kenny. They are very welcome to Leinster House. I thank Deputy McDonald for raising this important issue of wait times. It is a little disingenuous the way the figures have been presented this afternoon....

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (28 Feb 2024)

Simon Harris: I thank the Deputy for raising this issue. I am pleased to say Sligo has led the way in the provision of part-time education at what was IT Sligo and is now ATU Sligo. It has a very proud record. Up until now, students have had to pay significant fees to access part-time education. That simply does not make sense when we are trying the help people who are in work to upskill or help people...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Technological Universities (31 Jan 2024)

Simon Harris: ...and socio-economic progress in places with no previous university footprint as diverse as Athlone, Carlow, Castlebar, Clonmel, Ennis, Killybegs, Letterfrack, Letterkenny, Mount Bellew, Rathnew, Sligo, Thurles, Tralee, Waterford and Wexford. My Department and I are committed to advancing the Technological Universities agenda, and in summer of 2023 I introduced the Technological Sector...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Update on Key Issues: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (24 Jan 2024)

Simon Harris: ...We have enough challenges with our health service without staffing the NHS in the UK. The nursing programme has gone really well. It is currently happening in the north west, so that includes Sligo, Donegal, Galway and other places, I am certainly hoping there will be an expansion of that. I know there are possibilities around the Deputy's region too. We will announce the expansion...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Further and Higher Education (18 Jan 2024)

Simon Harris: ...training college of the future, which will be a real, modern, fit-for-purpose, flagship project for Mayo and the north west. The Deputy monitors this closely so he will be aware that the Mayo, Sligo and Leitrim ETB has been working very closely with our agency, SOLAS, to develop the next step, called the preliminary business case, for Castlebar under the college of the future major...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (18 Jan 2024)

Simon Harris: The Deputy will be aware that Mayo Sligo Leitrim ETB (MSLETB) have been working with and supported by SOLAS in developing their preliminary business case proposal for Castlebar under the FET College of the Future Major Projects fund for the last number of months. The development of a robust Preliminary Business Case (PBC) is fundamental to the requirements of the Infrastructure Guidelines...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Period Poverty (17 Jan 2024)

Simon Harris: ...Campus, Dillon Street, Clonmel, Co. Tipperary, E91 FR52 TETB Donegal ETB, Letterkenny Training Centre, Ballyraine Industrial Estate, Ramelton Road, Letterkenny, Co. Donegal, F92 WR89 Donegal ETB Sligo College of Further Education Clarion Road Sligo F91 DY66. MSLETB Castlemill Education Centre, Dublin DDLETB

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (17 Jan 2024)

Simon Harris: ...Kildare & Wicklow ETB 6 Kilkenny & Carlow ETB 6 Limerick & Clare ETB 1 Louth & Meath ETB 3 Mayo, Sligo & Leitrim ETB 4 Tipperary ETB 4 Waterford & Wexford ETB 7

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Data (6 Dec 2023)

Simon Harris: ...TUS 2,040 IADT 196 DKIT 499 ATU Donegal 841 ATU Galway 1,173 ATU Sligo 509 TU Dublin 2,000 MTU 1,104 SETU 1,247 Marino 261 St Patrick's...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards (7 Nov 2023)

Simon Harris: ...x20ac; 0.44m € 0.44m € 2.0m LAOIS AND OFFALY ETB € 0.65m € 0.44m € 1.2m LONGFORD AND WESTMEATH ETB € 0.55m € 0.73m € 0.82m LOUTH AND MEATH ETB € 3.3m € 20.5m € 2.9m MAYO...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (7 Nov 2023)

Simon Harris: ...x20ac; 0.44m € 0.44m € 2.0m LAOIS AND OFFALY ETB € 0.65m € 0.44m € 1.2m LONGFORD AND WESTMEATH ETB € 0.55m € 0.73m € 0.82m LOUTH AND MEATH ETB € 3.3m € 20.5m € 2.9m MAYO...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Schemes (24 Oct 2023)

Simon Harris: There is currently a network of five NZEB Centres of Excellence operational; Mayo-Sligo-Leitrim ETB, Cork ETB, Laois Offaly ETB, Waterford Wexford ETB and Limerick Clare ETB. The most recent NZEB Centre of Excellence in MSLETB is due to be officially opened shortly. A sixth centre in City of Dublin ETB is under development and City of Dublin ETB are already delivering NZEB Fundamental...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Student Accommodation (19 Oct 2023)

Simon Harris: ...me they are being asked to pay for accommodation at a spec, for want of a better word, they never sought. We need to get to standardised design. We need student accommodation as it is being built in Sligo and Athlone, County Westmeath, and the technological universities in Waterford, Carlow and other places. We need a standard approach across the country. I am concluding a piece of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (19 Oct 2023)

Simon Harris: ...Technician and Potable, Wastewater & Drainage Senior Technician. Engagement is underway with these groups in relation to these proposals. There are currently 5 NZEB Centres of Excellence operational, Mayo Sligo Leitrim ETB, Cork ETB, Laois Offaly ETB, Waterford Wexford ETB and Limerick Clare ETB. A 6th Centre, City of Dublin ETB is under development however CDETB are already...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (19 Oct 2023)

Simon Harris: ...taken over 2021-23, Budget 2024 provides €67m additional investment into the apprenticeship system. This will allow craft apprenticeship to continue to grow from 13,000 places in 2022 to over 16,000 places in 2024. Across the counties of Sligo, Leitrim, and Donegal specifically, for the overall period since 2018, a total of 563 apprentices have completed their apprenticeship...

Seanad: Access to Third Level Places and Student Accommodation: Statements (4 Oct 2023)

Simon Harris: ...know the points system can cripple people and can place a ridiculously unnecessary amount of stress on our young people. That is why I am determined we develop new pathways. This is not just talk. I was in Sligo on Monday of this week and I met the first nursing students from Sligo, Donegal and Galway, who are doing their nursing degree. Nobody asked them what points they got in the...