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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.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Student Accommodation (25 Jun 2024)

Student Accommodation

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Student Accommodation (25 Jun 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 62. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the provisions being made, or that will be made, to meet the full requirements of student accommodation adjacent to schools or colleges; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27034/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Student Accommodation (25 Jun 2024)

Darren O'Rourke: 64. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the national student accommodation strategy; when an update will be published; the measures he is taking to ensure students from Meath who are unable to stay in the family home are able to find suitable accommodation at the beginning of the new academic year; the measures he is taking to ensure there is adequate supply of suitable...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Student Accommodation (25 Jun 2024)

Bernard Durkan: Regarding the accommodation information that may be available, have any universities or third level institutions been identified? For instance, Maynooth University has already been identified and has achieved some progress in that area. The previous Minister made that information available to the House. Does that apply to any other third level institutions?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Student Accommodation (25 Jun 2024)

Patrick O'Donovan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 62 and 64 together. I am committed to progressing a new policy to provide State assistance to stimulate the development of new student accommodation. In April, the Taoiseach and I announced capital investment of €100 million from the national development plan windfall allocation for delivery of student accommodation projects. This enables the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Student Accommodation (25 Jun 2024)

Bernard Durkan: What is the degree to which it is anticipated the need can be met in full, insofar as is possible, given the information available about catchment areas of various colleges or universities?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Student Accommodation (25 Jun 2024)

Darren O'Rourke: This is a significant issue in my county, Meath, particularly for people travelling from north Meath into Dublin, for example. Some people are lucky enough to be able to live at home but they are denied the independence of living away from home during their college years. The issue above all else, though there are others, such as transport connections, is the issue of affordability. What...