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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Future Funding of Higher Education: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Mar 2022)

Paul Kehoe: ...not sure about that. He is very welcome. It is very important we have people from secondary school who come to Leinster House on work experience. I welcome from the Teachers Union of Ireland, TUI, Mr. Martin Marjoram, president; from the Union of Students in Ireland, USI, Ms Clare Austick, president; from the Irish Congress of Trade Unions, ICTU, education sector group, Mr. Karl...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Future Funding of Higher Education: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Mar 2022)

Mr. Martin Marjoram: The TUI thanks the committee for the opportunity to make this submission on the topic of future funding of higher education. The issue of funding of higher education has been a complex one for many years but has come to the fore especially since cutbacks of the last decade, combined with rapidly rising student numbers, and the publication in 2016 of Investing in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Future Funding of Higher Education: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Mar 2022)

...on future funding of the higher education sector. The congress group comprises a range of unions representing staff across all levels of the sector, including IFUT, the Teachers Union of Ireland, TUI, Fórsa, SIPTU and Unite. It is our view that equal access must be a cornerstone of our education sector as a whole, otherwise we will simply exacerbate divisions and inequality in Irish...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Future Funding of Higher Education: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Mar 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: .... SFI sets up centres in colleges and works on specific projects or research areas. Has the SFI model impacted on the working conditions in the higher education sector? In its submission, the TUI called for a 1% levy on corporation profits to adequately fund higher education. Is there a specific reason for applying this levy on profits rather than expanding the levy on payroll that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Future Funding of Higher Education: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Mar 2022)

...because at that stage we can answer the questions on how to deal with what is being put in front of us. A number of the people here, including us and the representatives from the USI, IFUT and TUI, as well as SIPTU, Fórsa and Unite, are part of Education Futures, the campaigning group we put together to try to deal with future funding. We had three pillars, which are the metrics by...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Future Funding of Higher Education: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Mar 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: ...the discussion on this. Gabhaim buíochas leis na finnéithe go léir as an bhfianaise seo, na fíricí agus an argóint. Táimse den tuairim go bhfuil cuid mhaith i gcoitiantacht againn. Tá tuiscint againn ar cé chomh tábhachtach is atá oideachas sa tríú leibhéal agus go dteastaíonn infheistíocht cheart ann. ...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Future Funding of Higher Education: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Mar 2022)

...the building of capacity. That has been positive but it needs to be built on to a far greater extent. There was a question about the fragmentation of employment. To build on what Mr. Jones talked about, TUI was a little ahead of IFUT in gaining the benefits of what he mentioned and of the Cush report. We met Michael Cush in numerous engagements to try to replicate progress we have...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Future Funding of Higher Education: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Mar 2022)

...have have ever had. We have a backlog that we are working through very quickly and, hopefully, will be cleared by the summer. We have engaged constructively with the FET stakeholders. We and the TUI have done that at all levels to ensure that backlog is dealt with. However, the questions remain. How do we deal with Housing for All? How do we deal with retrofitting? How do we deal...