Results 361-380 of 1,030,866 for in 'Dáil debates' OR in 'Committee meetings' (speaker:Tom Kitt OR speaker:Anne Rabbitte OR speaker:Willie O'Dea OR speaker:Gerald Nash)
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Student Accommodation (25 Jun 2024)
Question No. 63 taken with Written Answers.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Student Accommodation (25 Jun 2024)
Question No. 64 taken with Question No. 62.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Student Accommodation (25 Jun 2024)
Question No. 65 taken with Question No. 56.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Mental Health Services (25 Jun 2024)
Mental Health Services
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Mental Health Services (25 Jun 2024)
Mairead Farrell: 66. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on the expansion of mental health service across third-level institutions. [26569/24]
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Mental Health Services (25 Jun 2024)
Mairead Farrell: I want to ask about the expansion of mental health services across third-level institutions. This is of huge concern to students at this moment in time, particularly because they are facing very long waiting lists to see a service. When the amount of mental health supports are compared with the number of students in the universities, they just do not seem to be adequate at this point. What...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Mental Health Services (25 Jun 2024)
Patrick O'Donovan: I thank Deputy Farrell for raising this important issue. We had quite a good discussion with regard to disabilities in the previous session. This session has been dominated by the issue of accommodation. I am glad this issue has been raised because I have a particular interest in it. Well-being and student mental health are priorities for me and the Department. Higher education...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Mental Health Services (25 Jun 2024)
Mairead Farrell: I will give the Minister some context about why I am asking this question. First, I have met with many different students. This is a key issue that keeps coming up with the students' unions and broadly with the students as well. Galway is a place I know well. A GP came to me and said that because of the lack of adequate mental health supports within the universities, they are seeing a...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Mental Health Services (25 Jun 2024)
Patrick O'Donovan: I thank the Deputy. To give some examples, the higher education institutions received €5 million for this. The Atlantic Technological University, which has a very substantial campus in Galway, in 2023 received an allocation of €431,667. The University of Galway received an allocation of €316,438. We all have the same objective here. I have been in Deputy Farrell's...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Mental Health Services (25 Jun 2024)
Mairead Farrell: There was a problem with the Minister's predecessor who had a habit of making reannouncements. I have mentioned it before and I saw it regarding mental health supports and the funding for them - unfortunately, I cannot get the figure, although I tried to search for it - where there was an announcement as though it was extra, additional funding, but it was actually just the funding that was...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Mental Health Services (25 Jun 2024)
Patrick O'Donovan: This is not an issue that is confined to one part of the country nor is it confined to a conversation between one Deputy and another. This is an issue that we all, unfortunately, come into contact with. It is important to point out this was starting from a zero base. The former Minister, who is now Taoiseach, allocated approximately €5 million per year since 2020. That was to...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Mental Health Services (25 Jun 2024)
Question No. 67 taken with Written Answers.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Labour Market (25 Jun 2024)
Labour Market
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Labour Market (25 Jun 2024)
Bernard Durkan: 68. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which he continues to identify and meet the demand in the workplace, through the higher education sector, with particular reference to identification of the areas now most urgently requiring employees; his views on whether a sufficient supply of appropriately qualified graduates continues to be available to meet those demands; and...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Labour Market (25 Jun 2024)
Bernard Durkan: I have raised this question on a number of occasions before and I believe it is important. I am asking about the extent to which an adequate supply of graduates or suitably qualified postgraduates are available to meet the demands of the workplace at the moment and as we go forward.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Labour Market (25 Jun 2024)
Patrick O'Donovan: I thank Deputy Durkan for this very important question. The tertiary education system plays an essential role in ensuring our graduates from higher education, further education and training and from the apprenticeship models are equipped with the essential vocational, professional and other skills and competencies that will equip them for success in work. The agility and flexibility of the...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Adult Education Provision (25 Jun 2024)
David Stanton: Will the Minister of State give an indication of how many adult educators are involved in this scheme nationally? How many students are impacted or benefiting from the various schemes or courses involved here? The Minister of State has given an indication of the total extra cost but has he any indication of the total overall budget involved in the sector?
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Adult Education Provision (25 Jun 2024)
Niall Collins: I do not have that information to hand at the moment but will get the data for the Deputy as requested.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Adult Education Provision (25 Jun 2024)
David Stanton: I thank the Minister of State.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Adult Education Provision (25 Jun 2024)
Question No. 61 taken with Written Answers.