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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Quality of Teaching in Higher Education: Discussion (20 Jan 2016)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I know that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Quality of Teaching in Higher Education: Discussion (20 Jan 2016)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I have an answer. It must be a requirement that there is at least one meeting. There should be credit for attending that meeting. We have to incentivise it. It must be a carrot-and-stick approach. I know the students who are dropping out and they are largely boys. There must be a requirement-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Quality of Teaching in Higher Education: Discussion (20 Jan 2016)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I understand the issue of the STEM subjects, but I am talking about the humanities, the liberal arts, and the teacher education, where there are hundreds and hundreds of students starting each year. Do we know if every lecturer, even now, is meeting their students one-on-one once in a term, semester or year?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Quality of Teaching in Higher Education: Discussion (20 Jan 2016)
Fidelma Healy Eames: We began this initiative as a result of the recession and it is going very well. However, it operates completely from the bottom up in the sense that the teachers come to me free and the schools then fund the accommodation, which is just €25 per week. It is a very good initiative. I started it because the former Minister for Education and Skills, Deputy Ruairí Quinn, said that...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Quality of Teaching in Higher Education: Discussion (20 Jan 2016)
Fidelma Healy Eames: And they lose so many kids in the process.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Quality of Teaching in Higher Education: Discussion (20 Jan 2016)
Fidelma Healy Eames: May I respond to that issue?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Quality of Teaching in Higher Education: Discussion (20 Jan 2016)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I would like to hear the response to the questions I put. Also, I will say something about the subject of Mandarin. I am involved with 20 schools in Galway where Mandarin Chinese is taught and I bring in two teachers from China each year via University College Cork.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Quality of Teaching in Higher Education: Discussion (20 Jan 2016)
Fidelma Healy Eames: What impact is the investment in the national forum having? It is a relatively new development in higher level education. We had a good conference last year in NUIG on reforming third level education and the issues that need to be addressed are languages, which has been mentioned, career guidance-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Quality of Teaching in Higher Education: Discussion (20 Jan 2016)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Chairman, I will finish on this sentence. The issues that are of real concerns are languages, career guidance, attrition levels, apprenticeships and the casualisation of posts. What can we do to help third level education?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Quality of Teaching in Higher Education: Discussion (20 Jan 2016)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I apologise for being late. I had to speak on flooding in the Seanad. Those present will be aware that half the country is under water. I welcome the witnesses. I used to be a lecturer at Mary Immaculate College in Limerick. I congratulate Senator O'Donnell, who is a former lecturer of mine, for putting this issue on the agenda. I am sorry that I missed the witnesses' exposés on...
- Seanad: Flooding: Statements (20 Jan 2016)
Fidelma Healy Eames: The Minister of State is very welcome. I also commend him on his prompt response on the ground. On 27 December, two days after Christmas, I had to text him about a very urgent situation in Labane in Galway, just south of my home, where a woman feared for her life as the floods were rising. She also had depression, which made the situation worse. My purpose in standing here today is to...
- Seanad: Commencement Matters: Traffic Management (13 Jan 2016)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire agus guím bliain nua faoi mhaise dó. The chronic traffic situation we experience in Galway on an ongoing basis is getting worse. I propose one immediate solution to bring some relief which I want to discuss with the Minister and seek his advice on its implementation. The issue is the need for the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to...
- Seanad: Commencement Matters: Traffic Management (13 Jan 2016)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I thank the Minister for his answer, which is disappointing because I proposed a solution in the absence of adequate buses. The Minister said taking the bus to school or work is a good idea. There are no buses in Galway city to take people to school. That is the problem. That is why I said one of my solutions was a dedicated bus system. There are not adequate buses. The response of the...
- Seanad: Commencement Matters: Traffic Management (13 Jan 2016)
Fidelma Healy Eames: What immediate solutions does the Minister have to relieve traffic gridlock in Galway?
- Seanad: Commencement Matters: Traffic Management (13 Jan 2016)
Fidelma Healy Eames: One final point-----
- Seanad: Commencement Matters: Traffic Management (13 Jan 2016)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I agree that bus lanes should be kept for buses-----
- Seanad: Commencement Matters: Traffic Management (13 Jan 2016)
Fidelma Healy Eames: -----but where the number of buses is not adequate, that is not an adequate answer. It is fine when more buses are provided.
- Seanad: Commencement Matters: Traffic Management (13 Jan 2016)
Fidelma Healy Eames: It is easy to pull them off but in the meantime, the Minister needs to consider better and more immediate solutions for Galway. I do not accept that this is in anyway a funny matter. It is a very serious issue for our city.
- Seanad: Order of Business (13 Jan 2016)
Fidelma Healy Eames: It is an old story.
- Seanad: Order of Business (13 Jan 2016)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I join in the words of sympathy for the late Christy O'Connor Jnr. In a nutshell, he lit up every room he came into and that was widely felt at his funeral yesterday in Galway. I support the call for a debate on the health impacts of excessive sugar consumption. That was quite a documentary broadcast this week by RTE. There must be legislative solutions in this regard. As we have said...