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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)
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: 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)
Mairead Farrell: Gabhaim buíochas leis an Aire as ucht teacht os comhair an choiste. I have limited time to try to find out some things I did not fully understand from the budget, if that is possible. I want to understand what money is being deployed where and that kind of thing. I will start with the €77.4 million investment for apprenticeships. All investment in apprenticeships is obviously...
- 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)
Mairead Farrell: It is just about the amount.
- 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)
Mairead Farrell: I am sorry, but that is a lot of information. I am trying to find out first of all if there were 6,500 craft registrations in 2023, or am I wrong? Will the Minister clarify if I got that wrong because that was my understanding.
- 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)
Mairead Farrell: Okay, that was 6,588 in 2023. I was reading the budget speeches. I got them printed and was reading them as I was going. It referred to continued growth of craft apprenticeship systems to 6,800 registrations. I assume that is for 2025. That would be an increase of just 300.
- 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)
Mairead Farrell: What was said in the speech on budget day, and what the Minister has again mentioned was continued growth of the craft apprenticeship system to 6,800 registrations. That will be an increase of 300.
- 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)
Mairead Farrell: No, this is just for me to understand that specific point. It is an increase of 300 then.
- 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)
Mairead Farrell: Yes.
- 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)
Mairead Farrell: That is in terms of getting through them.
- 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)
Mairead Farrell: I know, yes.
- 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)
Mairead Farrell: Were there 6,500 registrations in 2023?
- 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)
Mairead Farrell: It seems that if there were 6,500 craft registrations in 2023, and then we talk about budget 2025 where we see continued growth to 6,800, it just does not seem an ambitious figure.
- 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)
Mairead Farrell: I welcome the investment 100%.
- 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)
Mairead Farrell: Yes.
- 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)
Mairead Farrell: I welcome the €77.4 million. Any investment or apprenticeship is important. I welcome that more trainers have been recruited. I have seen the figures on that, but it confuses me that we are talking about 6,500 craft registrations in 2023 and then 6,800 in 2025. I do not think that shows ambition. Any way, I only have two minutes left.