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

Mr. Andrew Brownlee: On behalf of SOLAS, I thank the committee for the opportunity to speak with it today and provide an update on implementation of recommendations outlined in the report entitled “North South Student Enrolment in Tertiary Education”. SOLAS is the State agency responsible for further education and training, FET, in Ireland. Our vision is to power the...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Development of Local and Community Arts: Discussion (24 May 2023)

...opportunity to address the committee today. As my family is from Mayo, I will first quote some lines by Raifteirí, the Mayo poet: Mise Raifteirí an file, Lán dóchas is grá, Le súile gan solas, Le ciúnas gan chrá... Féach anois mé Mo dhroim le balla, Ag seinm ceoil Do phócaí folmha. That sets the tone and the scene of...

Finance Bill 2023: Report Stage (18 Apr 2023)

Mattie McGrath: ...charge their vehicles who cover such huge distances. We are clearly putting the cart before the horse here. While these people are energetic and good employees, they are not able to push the vehicle with an electric motor inside it up and down hills and roads where they have no place to charge it when they run out of power. If the vehicle is hybrid, they have some chance but they have...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: North-South Student Enrolment in Tertiary Education: Discussion (21 Feb 2023)

...a number of considered recommendations. We look forward to discussing and engaging with these in greater detail. I will provide an initial response to each of them in turn: The first recommendation is to task the HEA and SOLAS with the promotion of cross-Border student enrolment. We agree that this is worth raising with the HEA in setting a general context for cross-Border student...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Education (14 Jul 2022)

Simon Harris: ...Education and Training (FET) processes. FET will continue to contribute to the Government’s call of action to prioritise energy, building and the environment in its processes. It is envisaged that the SOLAS Green Skills Action Plan will contribute to clean technologies and the acceleration of the use of renewables. It will contribute to a greater awareness of energy efficiency and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Renewable Energy Generation (7 Jul 2022)

Simon Harris: ...Education and Training (FET) processes. FET will continue to contribute to the Government’s call of action to prioritise energy, building and the environment in its processes. It is envisaged that the SOLAS Green Skills Action Plan will contribute to clean technologies and the acceleration of the use of renewables. It will contribute to a greater awareness of energy efficiency and...

Irish Apprenticeship System: Statements (26 May 2022)

Niall Collins: ...came to this point I would like to give the House a brief overview of the history and context of our apprenticeship system, specifically the legislative basis for apprenticeships, the formation of SOLAS, the review of apprenticeship training in Ireland in 2013 and the development of post-2016 apprenticeship programmes. I will then speak in more detail about the development process and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Strategy, Targets, Achievements and Future Progress: IDA Ireland (26 Jan 2022)

...to play in apprenticeships. It is something on which we are heavily engaged with all the relevant parties here in terms of the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research and Innovation, SOLAS and the local training boards, to look at opportunities for how multinationals can support their efforts and vice versa. Within IDA Ireland we have set up a talent transformation and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Skills Needed to Support the Economic Recovery Plan: Discussion (8 Dec 2021) See 3 other results from this debate

Róisín Garvey: I will try to give the witnesses more time to talk this time. I always forget about that. We did not hear from Dr. Power at all. I spoke to a plumber friend of mine who has 20 staff to hear his perspective. I love listening to tradesman. When trying to sort out the issue it is always good to talk to the lads on the ground. He said that the plumbing apprenticeship programme is...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Schemes (30 Nov 2021)

Simon Harris: ...and upskilling was provided including a €22 million Green Skills Action programme and continued investment in supporting businesses. Ireland’s recent Recovery and Resilience Plan included SOLAS’s Recovery Skills Response Programme will see a range of additional educational and training programmes rolled out as part of the Skills to Compete and the establishment of the...

Merchant Shipping (Investigation of Marine Casualties) (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (24 Nov 2021)

Hildegarde Naughton: ...of the MCIB. The opportunity offered by this Bill's introduction has been taken to update the legislative provisions relating to the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea, SOLAS, with a view to providing an enabling framework for the transposition of more recent amendments to the international convention into Irish law. There is an ongoing need for such updates in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion (19 Oct 2021)

Mr. Ken Whyte: On the targeted approach to help disadvantaged learners, the power of IT and devices has been referred to a number of times. There was an initiative during the Covid crisis, which stemmed from the Department and was delivered through SOLAS, to provide devices to many disadvantaged learners. It was a successful initiative at the time for what was needed. It showed the power...

Seanad: Housing For All - a New Housing Plan for Ireland: Statements (29 Sep 2021)

Malcolm Byrne: ...home in one's position and how the shared equity scheme operates. It is essential that we start to roll those out. The big difference now is that local authorities have the resources and the power to be able to deliver. We need to start to draw up league tables around local authorities' performances. No matter what local authority one is in, one will be able to compare the performance...

Financial Resolutions 2020 - Budget Statement 2021 (13 Oct 2020)

Michael McGrath: ...real uncertainty. The need to respond has never been more urgent. Funding for the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection will support the incomes of at least 370,000 jobseekers in 2021 and a further 350,000 individuals on the employment wage subsidy scheme. Additional funding through the Department with responsibility for higher and further education will support more...

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

Simon Harris: ...they can use the accommodation in a more flexible way and allow somebody to book a room for two or three nights a week or month, or whatever his or her schedule requires. I am grateful that a number of higher education institutions have done that. While it is not in my power to issue instructions to the private rental market, I urge private providers to follow suit. I note that the USI...

Covid-19 (Education and Skills): Statements (4 Jun 2020)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...to the Connect Trade Union, that the trade union movement is willing to step up to the mark and fill in the gaps that need to be filled. There is potential for these courses to be delivered online. SOLAS oversees it but, unfortunately, it is unbending. This is under the Department and I ask the Minister please to speak about the safe pass so that people moving from one jurisdiction back...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Apprenticeships: Discussion (22 Oct 2019)

...guidance. The Deputy asked how we can get the message out. We organise events such as career days in schools. One of the very rich developments that has arisen from our wonderful engagement with SOLAS is that we are now interfacing with labour market stakeholders for the first time in ten years. My colleagues tell me there was great engagement with Con Power and the Confederation of...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Policy and Budgetary Planning: Discussion (19 Jun 2019)

Tommy Broughan: ...in the past. I worked for contractors on both public and private estates. Why is Mr. Lucey moaning about Dublin and the number of cranes on its skyline? Should he not rejoice in that? Most powerful economies tend to have a major capital city. Some 40 million out of 125 million Japanese live in the greater Tokyo area. Some 20 million Argentines live in Buenos Aires, out of 48 million...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: SOLAS Training and Education Programmes Certification (26 Feb 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 204. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason SOLAS is continuing to add additional conditions onto the renewal of the safe pass cards in the absence of the proposed draft regulations (details supplied) which will provide the additional power to add their own conditions; if SOLAS will suspend these additional requirements until the draft regulations come into law; and if he...

Irish Film Board (Amendment) Bill 2018: Second Stage (6 Dec 2018)

Josepha Madigan: ...an exponential rate. In addition, work based learning initiatives grew through participation in "Red Rock" and "Nightflyers", the VFX animation traineeship, the graduate traineeship programme and the new assistant traineeship in Kilkenny with Cartoon Saloon supported by SOLAS. It is fair to say Screen Ireland has undergone major change and development, both domestically and...