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Planning and Development Bill 2023: From the Seanad (9 Oct 2024)

Seanad amendment agreed to.

Planning and Development Bill 2023: From the Seanad (9 Oct 2024)

Seanad amendment No. 18:

Planning and Development Bill 2023: From the Seanad (9 Oct 2024)

Seanad amendment agreed to.

Planning and Development Bill 2023: From the Seanad (9 Oct 2024)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Seanad amendments Nos. 19 to 30, inclusive, are related and may be discussed together.

Planning and Development Bill 2023: From the Seanad (9 Oct 2024)

Seanad amendment No. 19:

Planning and Development Bill 2023: From the Seanad (9 Oct 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: Seanad amendment No. 19 amends section 9 to provide that where the Minister proposes exempted development regulations that are likely to affect the performance of a State authority, the Minister shall consult that State authority before making the regulations. The text as currently written has this as a discretionary consultation, however it is appropriate that any such consultation be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Issues Impacting the Fisheries Sector and Aquaculture: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (9 Oct 2024)

Michael Ring: I welcome the officials from the Department. I will start at the back before moving forward. What supports has the Department given the shellfish market over the past year? It is being put through the mill, particularly with Brexit. How much of the adjustment fund was drawn down by Ireland and how much was sent back? That money was sent to Ireland to try to support fishers. Why have...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Issues Impacting the Fisheries Sector and Aquaculture: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (9 Oct 2024)

Michael Ring: Most people in the shellfish market had to export through England into Europe, but Brexit has created a problem, given the barriers. What supports have been provided to help the market? The industry is in great difficulty.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Issues Impacting the Fisheries Sector and Aquaculture: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (9 Oct 2024)

Michael Ring: I do not wish to be disrespectful, as Ms McSherry is answering the questions she is asked, but why has there been such resistance within the Department to hook-and-line fishers in recent years? Why will it not give a bit more quota to small fishers, particularly on the west coast, who are depending on it for their livelihoods? Ms McSherry and I know it is a difficult life and anything those...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Issues Impacting the Fisheries Sector and Aquaculture: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (9 Oct 2024)

Michael Ring: That is fair enough. Ms McSherry is not the Minister, to be fair, and I cannot say any more about that. Nevertheless, she might get the Department to consider other species that fishers could fish but are not allowed to. These people have gone through a very difficult time over recent years. This keeps a lot of jobs and people working and a lot of money in the economy, especially in rural...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Issues Impacting the Fisheries Sector and Aquaculture: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (9 Oct 2024)

Michael Ring: My final question relates to the industry itself. I have noticed over the years that there are a lot of fishing organisations. Have they come together and are they singing from the same hymn sheet, or is there still the same level of competition between their representatives? The Minister will go to the EU between now and Christmas to negotiate again, and we all want to be on the same hymn...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: National Dialogue on Women in Agriculture: Discussion (9 Oct 2024)

Carol Nolan: I want to commend all the witnesses. I spoke to them earlier. We need to pave a way forward and show that there are lots of good things and lots of positivity happening around agriculture in Ireland. We need to pave a way forward and show that there are many good things happening and much positivity in agriculture in Ireland. Unfortunately, women were airbrushed into the background for...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Current and Future Plans for Further and Higher Education: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (9 Oct 2024)

Carol Nolan: I thank the Minister for his presentation. On student accommodation, he referred to student accommodation for targeted students being below market price. Who are the target students? What is the qualifying criteria? How would the programme be rolled out? How would students be informed that they could apply for the exemption or support?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Current and Future Plans for Further and Higher Education: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (9 Oct 2024)

Carol Nolan: Who are the target students? What are the categories? Does the Department lay out the criteria for the universities to follow?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Current and Future Plans for Further and Higher Education: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (9 Oct 2024)

Carol Nolan: I fully agree with the Minister that the mindset around apprenticeships needs to change. It definitely does.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Current and Future Plans for Further and Higher Education: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (9 Oct 2024)

Carol Nolan: Apprenticeships are of equal value to a university degree. We in Ireland need to change our view of apprenticeships. As the Minister rightly said, in Germany and other places people take a different view of apprenticeship and they are treated as equivalent to a university degree, and rightly so. The Minister is right that we do need to reach parents. Is there collaboration with career...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Current and Future Plans for Further and Higher Education: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (9 Oct 2024)

Carol Nolan: Yes. The Minister mentioned career guidance teachers. They have shown leadership on this issue. Traditionally, some schools are better than others at promoting apprenticeships at a whole-school level. It is unfair to directly blame any career guidance teacher but some schools have a culture of apprenticeships. The school I attended was known as "the tech" at the time and such schools...

Planning and Development Bill 2023: From the Seanad (9 Oct 2024)

Seanad amendment No. 1 agreed to.

Planning and Development Bill 2023: From the Seanad (9 Oct 2024)

Seanad amendment No. 2:

Planning and Development Bill 2023: From the Seanad (9 Oct 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 1 to Seanad amendment No. 2: In subsection (3), after “subsection (4)”, to insert “and subsection (6)”.