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- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Technological Universities (25 Jun 2024)
Mairead Farrell: Will the Minister update us on the plans for putting in place a new borrowing framework for the technological universities? It has been a topic of conversation for some time - realistically since the TUs have come on stream. What is the update on this issue?
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Student Accommodation (25 Jun 2024)
Mairead Farrell: For clarity, I was talking about the Minister's predecessor when I was talking about the hullabaloo. There was a massive hullabaloo regarding something related to student accommodation that came before Cabinet but there was nothing new in it. It sometimes takes a while to see behind the big hullabaloo of an announcement but I recognise that did not happen on the Minister's watch. It was...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Student Accommodation (25 Jun 2024)
Violet-Anne Wynne: I also welcome the Minister's earlier announcement in respect of legislation to ensure that students are not locked into 51-week leases. I also commend the USI on its serious campaigning on the matter. I was hoping to get a bit of clarification as to whether that will include digs accommodation. The USI's 2023 student digs survey included stark findings. Only 11% of students reported...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Student Accommodation (25 Jun 2024)
Thomas Gould: To follow on from the previous two speakers, there is a crisis in Cork regarding student accommodation and the affordability of such accommodation. That is why it is so important that the strategy is now delivered. I know the Minister is not long in the job but surely his predecessor had advanced this. It should be at a certain stage now. When will we have sight of it? It is a very...
- 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...