• Fine Gael TD for Wicklow
• Entered the Dáil on 30 November 2024 — General election
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• Subjects (based on headings added by the Dáil record): Schools Building Projects, Tourism Policy, Housing Provision, Health Services Staff, Local Authorities

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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Education and Training Boards (16 Oct 2025)

“8. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the role of the ETBs in higher education, and where they sit in the education hierarchy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56040/25]”

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Education and Training Boards (16 Oct 2025)

“The education and training boards, ETBs, offer many different post-leaving certificate, PLC, courses that often lead into third level education. In many cases these courses are suitable for leaving certificate students. What is the role of the ETBs in higher education and where they sit in the education hierarchy?”

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Education and Training Boards (16 Oct 2025)

“I ask that all ETB schools promote these courses within their schools, but also that the ETB colleges and courses are promoted within non-ETB schools. The ETBs also offer apprenticeships. Could relevant funding be allocated to promote these apprenticeship courses? The apprenticeships have been encouraged and have grown since the Tánaiste, Deputy Simon Harris, was Minister for higher...”

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• Has spoken in 53 committee discussions and Dáil debates since entering the Oireachtas. No comparison to other members is shown here because this member has been in office for less than a year.
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