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- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Student Accommodation (25 Jun 2024)
Bernard Durkan: Can it be determined where the requirement for student accommodation is most acute? I am only seeking rough figures. To what extent, if any, are planning permissions already indicated likely to meet that requirement?
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Student Accommodation (25 Jun 2024)
Patrick O'Donovan: I will deal with the questions in reverse order. I will come back to Deputy Durkan directly once we have had a chance to engage with all of the local authorities with respect to unused planning permissions in the private sector. On digs accommodation, the census carried out before the end of May showed that, in Cork, there were more than 400 available rooms in digs accommodation out of a...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Student Accommodation (25 Jun 2024)
Thomas Gould: How much were they?
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Student Accommodation (25 Jun 2024)
Patrick O'Donovan: I am sorry; I did not interrupt Deputy Gould.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Student Accommodation (25 Jun 2024)
Thomas Gould: How much were they?
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Student Accommodation (25 Jun 2024)
Patrick O'Donovan: If the Deputy asks a question, he should at least give me an opportunity to answer it. I did not interrupt him. As somebody who stayed in digs in Cork myself, in Hartlands Avenue, a number of years ago, I know that these are private family homes into which people bring students. We have to be very conscious that they are private homes. The vast majority who have stayed in them would...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Artificial Intelligence (25 Jun 2024)
Artificial Intelligence
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Artificial Intelligence (25 Jun 2024)
Richard Bruton: 57. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has assessed the role that artificial intelligence should play in shaping the future of further and higher education; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27049/24]
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Artificial Intelligence (25 Jun 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Deputy Stanton is taking Question No. 57.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Artificial Intelligence (25 Jun 2024)
David Stanton: I am asking this question on behalf of Deputy Richard Bruton, who sends his apologies. He wants to ask the Minister if he has assessed the role artificial intelligence should play in shaping the future of further and higher education given that it has been described as the fourth industrial revolution, bringing a tsunami of change. I am interested in hearing the Minister's response.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Artificial Intelligence (25 Jun 2024)
Patrick O'Donovan: When the Deputy and I last discussed this topic, in May, we talked about how artificial intelligence holds transformative potential for workplaces in Ireland and what we are doing to ensure that workers of all types have the skills needed to meet challenges around displacement and opportunities to enhance their roles via artificial intelligence. Al is also promising to transform how...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions (25 Jun 2024)
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Third Level Fees (25 Jun 2024)
Third Level Fees
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Third Level Fees (25 Jun 2024)
David Stanton: 55. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the current situation with respect to the payment of non-EU third-level fees by Irish citizens educated and currently living outside of the EU; if he has considered any changes in this regard; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27020/24]
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Third Level Fees (25 Jun 2024)
David Stanton: This question was sparked by the real-life experience of a former constituent who is now living outside the European Union. He contacted me to say that his son, who was born in 2004, would like to come back to Ireland to go to college. His son has an Irish PPS number, an Irish bank account, and an Irish passport, but because he is living abroad he will have to pay non-EU fees, which are...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Third Level Fees (25 Jun 2024)
Patrick O'Donovan: I thank the Deputy. The higher education tuition fee payable by a student can vary depending on a variety of factors, including the type of course and the student's access route. The assessment of a student’s application and the determination of the appropriate fee rate is a function of the institution attended. Typically there are two rates of fee, an EU rate of fee or a non-EU...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Third Level Fees (25 Jun 2024)
David Stanton: I thank the Minister for his response and interest in this matter. He will appreciate that Irish citizens living abroad would like their children to come back here to go to university, but the fees are exorbitant. The Minister said he cannot intervene in this way, but is there any way he can make it easier? Will he consider examining the possibility of making it easier for Irish citizens...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Third Level Fees (25 Jun 2024)
Patrick O'Donovan: I understand what the Deputy raised but the crux of the matter is the residency issue for three out of the previous five years. That is a long-standing policy within the Department and the Government, as he will appreciate. It comes on the basis of proving that the person has a direct connection to the State and is ordinarily resident here. We appreciate that it obviously costs an awful...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Third Level Fees (25 Jun 2024)
David Stanton: On that last point, I understand that some other EU countries have changed that rule in that they allow people to go to university there and accept them as European citizens paying only European fees. Even Irish citizens in some countries can have that benefit. I will ask the Minister some questions. When is this policy being reviewed? Has it been reviewed recently? Will he set a review...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Third Level Fees (25 Jun 2024)
Patrick O'Donovan: In answering the Deputy's question, we have to be conscious of EU law. We have to make sure that all persons within the European Union are treated equally. The exemption cannot just be available for an Irish citizen within the European Union. Again, I do not know the details of whether the person is within or outside the European Union. It might be better if I get the details and am able...