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- 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.
- 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 did not talk about the consortia ones, but I am talking about-----
- 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 talking about craft registrations because these are the people who want to build the homes we need. I welcome people doing all different types of apprenticeships, but to be honest I think it is a bit mad that we are talking about 6,500 craft registrations in 2023. Then the Ministers on the day of the budget start talking about 6,800 registrations as if this is massive growth. I turn...
- 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: But the TUs-----
- 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: If it is off balance sheet there is a mechanism.
- 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 totally get that it is not without its complications. The Minister is saying everything is on the table, but in order for that borrowing for TU student accommodation to be moved off balance sheet, there is a process, and that process takes time.
- 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: Has that process started, or has it not started?
- 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: To what level?
- 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: Absolutely, it is literally beside my estate, but that is not really the question I have. I am trying to figure something out here. I could be wrong, but is it not that the review has to be done by the CSO and it then goes to Eurostat? Is that not the way it works? What stage is it at?
- 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 totally get that but I am trying to figure out whether that process has started.
- 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 in no way clearer on that. Thanks.
- 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)
Jim O'Callaghan: I thank the Minister and officials from the Department for coming before the committee. I welcome the €1,000 reduction in the student contribution fee. What will happen to students and their families who paid the full amount prior to the announcement in the budget? Will they be reimbursed or will it be carried over? Do they have the option?
- 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)
Jim O'Callaghan: Do they have to apply for it or will it automatically be-----
- 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)
Jim O'Callaghan: There was a good announcement in the budget about the increase in the stipend paid to PhD students. I think it is up to €25,000. When will that commence?
- 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)
Jim O'Callaghan: Do they have to apply or is it automatically-----