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Members’ Statements 13 February 2024

https://youtu.be/zJSsvFxKpUM What are Members’ Statements? If a Member wishes to make a statement in the Assembly Chamber during Plenary, he or she must rise in their place. The Speaker will select a Member to make a statement, which must relate to a topical matter of public interest.

Motion: High Quality Affordable Childcare

https://youtu.be/eqb035u6p-8 Motion: High Quality Affordable Childcare Proposed: That this Assembly recognises that the costs of childcare are unaffordable for many and that hard-working families are struggling every month to meet these costs; further recognises that the childcare sector is in need of urgent and significant investment in order to put the sector on a sustainable… Continue Reading Motion: High Quality Affordable Childcare

Ministerial Statement 12 February 2024: Sustainable Investment in Education Infrastructure

https://youtu.be/zQsXGf6qhUs?si=XwTGLvtdmAVzO9x1 Minister of Education, Paul Given provides a statement regarding sustainable investment in education infrastructure. Following the Statement, the Minister answered Members’ questions. Read the transcript of the statement and the question and answer session that followed.

Assembly Recall on COVID-19 Issues in Schools on 10 January 2022

Motion for debate “That this Assembly expresses its support for keeping schools open and operating in a manner that is safe for pupils, parents, teachers and staff; further expresses serious concern at the lack of planning by the Minister of Education to ensure the safe reopening of schools in the context of the increased transmissibility… Continue Reading Assembly Recall on COVID-19 Issues in Schools on 10 January 2022

Committee for Education Meeting Wednesday 1 September 2021

https://youtu.be/yI2Cf__njIQ The Education Committee met to discuss school restarts with representatives of National Association of Schoolmasters Union of Women Teachers, the Irish National Teachers’ Organisation, Ulster Teachers’ Union, National Education Union and the National Association of Head Teachers. View the agenda.