 We'll go to our business faculty members speaking minutes to introduce themselves and their ideas to you, and then we're going to go to questions. I'll ask the wrong questions, but you can also go to my one of us, Sal Adin, and then you'll use the question with Larnan. I'm sorry, that was my fault. So first off, Larnan, you have three minutes. Okay, so my name's Larnan, and I'm in second year. I'm sure we'll be in third year. And I'm going to be a business rep. So give me a quick background on who I am. I'm very into chairperson at the Academy of Fine Society. Second big society is you. I'm the Treasurer of the Academy of Fine Society, as you would say. And also, I'm the Treasurer of the University of Ruby Club. I'm the player for the University of Ruby. I used to be a first year rep, and I was actually awarded a business rep in a year or two years ago. And CLC awards her on it. And this year I actually migrated to the Business Society in Sydney. And I trained competition this year, and it's an exciting study. I have a lot of experience on the brand. And this is a community. And already you also know a lot of people. And you have a lot of things to do. You have a whole new business activity around the College of Work. And what do I want to do? And talking to people in positions where I have education, I talk to a program chair, I talk to James, and again and again what the issues actually are. And the fourth thing that's called, again and again, is accountancy. Accountancy is one of the highest failed modules for not a camera client student. So business, like global business, kind of aviation management. And it's kind of a business. And what I propose is that you set up an account where you set up some students who go, and they give their work in, just like the Mastering Centre, and they will get back as soon as they can correct it. I believe it's actually feasible that this is an idea. And I've got the Mastering Centre, I've said, if you're an employee that's in an account student, you can give a touch head like the students. And we say, on Tuesdays they're going to come to the press meeting and go, and they know exactly where they're going to get the work done. And interest support. Most students on Christmas who are not in the system, they've failed, but no support. Only any student can be seen from every field, and there's no support during the day. And if you support these students, show their opportunities, and make that kind of thing. And jobs on the support, which is straight from the job, as you go into the business field and trade ahead here, is list of jobs, opportunities, and a lot of other students who call it and say, I want to do these and I want to get into college. And what are the ideas I have here in the career scheme? Students, and faculty students, and white students who have excelled. And of course, social network events. And I'm looking at DC, I want to go into business culture, graduate students who have been there for me for four years, three years, et cetera, and actually get to know them and say, I'm in the career plan, do you want to go into it? And that's it. It's not an important technical experience here for the world. And it's not what I'm going to say or do, I'll actually achieve it. I'll be on the ground. Thank you both. Hi everyone, my name is Christine Crowe. I'm a professor of business studies here in DC from Dublin. I want you to vote for me for business faculty. Right. In fact, I want to improve student feedback. So at the moment, we have a student survey of teaching at the end of every semester. Realistically, this is just too late for an issue to be resolved, but it's exam time then, and it's not the time to be resolved in an issue. So I'd really like to introduce that student feedback still halfway through so that there's an issue that can be resolved and then it won't be as worry-going into exam time. Another thing I'm really passionate about is bringing more guest speakers here to DC. At the moment, there's some great societies that really do this, but I'd really like for the business faculty to do this. I'm so passionate about this that I'm actually excited when we bring in a business guest speaker next Wednesday and I'll create Lisa Merida, she's the owner of Ecos Restaurant, a food enthusiast who's meant to have an Irish-independent as well as her daddy, and she's going to be telling us her five top tips for setting up your own business. So I think this really shows how much I really want this position and how much I'm passionate for getting more guest speakers to be here in the business school. I'd also like to bring in more CV advisors. I need to be back first. This is one thing that I've spoken to students, students from undergrad, students from post-grad, I've also spoken to staff, lecturers, tutors, anyone within the business faculty that will talk to me, I've spoken to all of them who told me that they'd really like to see more guest speakers here. As well as the guest speakers, in fact, a lot of people forget that aviation management is a force within the business school and they're really forgotten about, so I'd really like to organize the aviation management kind of focus to get the speakers to come into business school. Another thing I'd really like to do would be improve the classroom communications system. I've also met until the second semester, so I know what it's like to be a student looking for help on the classroom. I also know what it's like to be that classroom and know that students are looking for the help. And there is a barrier there to communication, so I'd really like to break that down. To do this, I would introduce that all classrooms contact details will be available on every students who can play, so you know you can reach them easily. I'd also like to introduce one officer of the week for the faculty round, so that students all know they're up in the SU, be it academic and if they're there to be represented. The last thing I'd like to do would be to introduce a business faculty ball. At the moment, there's not a sophisticated business faculty ball, so I'd really, really like to bring this in. I'd like to have it in the semester one, so that first-year students would get to know each other as well as the older students at the very start of their college experience. So, I'm just so passionate about this role and would love to have the opportunity to see these changes country on DCU. I'm heart-breaking, positive and devoted, and would really appreciate your number one vote. Good luck to all of the candidates and thank you. Hi, my name's Lyselle Hayden and I'm running for the position of business faculty rep obviously. I'm an EDF one student and I've been a class rep for EDF for the year. The reason why I'm a faculty rep is because I'm a student person and I feel that I have the relevant experience from the job. The class rep position has allowed me to solve students problems and I also volunteer outside outside college especially with the USMC. I'm doing a self-initiating project to lower the level of employment in some other areas now. I've also taken part in a few promotions in DC as well including the new DCBS video and I've run reading articles for the DCBS newsletter. My manifesto and campaign doesn't come with bells and whistles, famous people or free stuff. I feel that in a campaign like this the manifesto of the person should speak for itself. So for me the only cost the SU for my campaign is for the 50 posters, 50 e-flits and 220 for boot time. It's an awful lot. I feel like extra gimmicks are unnecessary and just over the cost of the student's union itself a faculty rep should aim to help the SU in as many ways as possible including lowering their costs. My objectives are simple but effective they include more faculty means with class reps promote the business skill across the world and have faculty events not only such as the business faculty ball which a few candidates have put this in their manifesto but also regular events and cross faculty events. I want to say a real-time jobs portal with part-time positions for students on and off campus. This will link in with the career service and also topside planning with the company that come in. A small minor feature I would like to get a better water dispenser in the business field which is important for people to stay hydrated rather than student business and possibly also be able to get one of these in the library. Lastly, I would like to point out this is not the importance of post grads. I feel that post grads are only appreciated in the business field and I would like to change this and get better contact between post grads and only grads with certain parts on campus. So thanks for listening and I hope when you log on to su-election.dc.au that you vote by manifesto and good luck to all of you. I'm Rachel from Northern Ireland as you can probably tell. So I think because I am from Northern Ireland it shows my dedication to the business field. I never went to college and both grades aren't as high but I devoted myself to making sure that I got in here because I knew that the business field was what would be the best choice for me and I feel like because I am so devoted to the business field I have some questions about it that I'd be really good for the business faculty. One thing that I want to bring in if I'm elected the first is I want to bring in more help for students. So I've noticed that for an awful lot of people accounting and arts are subject to a lot of struggling so I'd like to bring in one-to-one tuition in the math centre so you could both like an accounting student or a math student for an hour and then you can tell I'd also bring in more help in the math centre for people that are particularly struggling with those. I'd like to bring in a new module across all the business courses so in a minute I'll go into finance so we'll have it so I'd like to bring it in so that everybody in the business can have a chance to participate in this and if I have extra credits I'd also like to work with the interim because in a minute you have to accept your first offer but accept the first offer that you get whereas I want to change this so if you get the offer and to make sure students get far weird for what they're working for so people are getting very little if any at all and that's just not practical for students to live on. I want to bring more events in so as everybody else they want to bring in a lot but I also want to bring in interview skills workshops talk to employers give people the opportunity to talk with potential employers so you can say I'm helping them draft the patience so that we can get skills that are going to matter for you in the long run, not just like yes, have fun but also be a bit worthwhile I want to make some improvement to the best programme so no, I'm going to do something first years do for the first two days I feel like that's an adequate you see I've seen people for the first two years after that you don't see them again it's not a long enough time to see my friendships that we do not really want anyone whereas as I have spent a few more days I want to know a few more people on campus and so I really love you especially people who aren't involved with that will end a lot better and then I'll put that with them right from the start of the year I want to improve the communication so I want to bring in office hours so more people can come to me a few hours a week I have problems and suggestions anything that's going wrong or right so that I can fix any problems street office are happening and I also want to bring in more communication for the business especially to Northern Ireland students because we have scholarships for them and yet they're not being taken or handed up so I feel like that means to be addressed so I'm really excited and I really appreciate it it's been fun for me for a business that's in the back and I know that I can make a change thank you some questions that have been submitted already if you think of any more please feel free to send them down to Ireland or you can put it on your hand I'll put it on to the floor so for Stephen Gould the question is how do candidates propose to balance their work as a rep with their studies at the moment I am a class rep for BS once I know what it's like to have to get and manage my time I also had a part-time job up until a few weeks ago so I know exactly how to manage my time I did it for my need and say that I have this whole week planning to every hour to every minute I would say that time management is really one of my strong points so I definitely wouldn't have a difficulty with having to manage my time in college names like college so I really learned how to manage my time during that I repeat my needs like last year so time management was a huge thing I feel that just because I do so many things I'm able to have a down to a T during the week exactly what I do I managed to fit in time to go for the gym I didn't like it but I've managed to fit in time to go for the gym and everything so I think I'd be a good time management so I revolve in societies of working part-time job on top of this and still manage everything at the time to go home with the weekends like I know for this most weeks I plan my week break I plan the week out what I'm going to do every hour of every day so it would just be a matter of fitting in the faculty route into the time slot zone I think that I'd be able to manage it on top of everything else I have on Hey dear so at the moment I'm balancing two jobs at a care of society at the college all together so I managed to manage that and I know what you've said and the moment is happening I'm going to find you next year in the family for your problem but there's substantially better candidates that are running that are in the final year and there's also candidates that are in the house that are going to be present and I just want to clear the loop but I don't think that's a big issue I'm going to start balancing at the moment and I think next year I definitely at the end of the day it's going to have to be more important to set an hour's point for the week to come We can provide to students struggling with finance or finance and environmental modules not having any good idea there that wasn't kept enough and I don't want to be imposing on this idea but I think it's an original idea that's very good and very proactive and I think even if any of the other candidates were to get this faculty route an idea to bring in so that would be something that I'd definitely like to see as well and for that idea it was just brilliant So as I said in my speech I want to ring on what the one tradition in the maths centre I count on students in the maths centre because some of them just focus only on maths so I want to get a count on what's in so that supports that I also potentially could say in this tutorial centre because it's just not enough to come up Well obviously we're having a camp in the learning centre so I looked into it and some of them actually come to us with people come to us with James Lundby about it program chair and he's back in it all the way they don't think it would possibly be an issue with resources but you can balance it out like the maths centre in Malmö has given us certain resources it's given us certain resources we just did the other work we did in Calisthenic Malmö we were looking at the library and changing the areas full and the area to be ranked it's very similar to that we look at it, we get schools and PhD students doing counselling we give them a certain area of maths to understand they can go and get help if they need it Actually yesterday I attended a meeting for the BS faculty it was discussed about the failure rate in accounting and they were kind of teasing their ways on how they do that so I definitely think this is an issue that needs to be resolved and I definitely don't get into it more at the moment I definitely like to look at what areas in particular they're going down in and have the tutorials go through the more I also encourage people to go to tutorials I know that a lot of people are dreaming but they've been through it for some time so I'd like to encourage more people to go to them to have those resources and people would be able to use that I do have more written ones I've just given you the opportunity communication between the NL students and the faculty I feel like that will really help get people involved so monthly emails giving them more regular emails just giving them information on what's happening and essentially even a business faculty app where people are updated because they're covered with computer faculty so it could give them updates or events and then use it for any different things to ask it's prior to meet friends I could set that up with the computer faculty just to make actually good ideas to meet friends and get help if I know about the apps I guess I have a talent and everybody who is here is in this faculty you do get emails from the real quite often about what's going on and what's happening I think that I'd follow up on this for a way to say if you do really want people to use the service it's something you can develop and actually learn in the south which is literally going to classes this week and saying over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over it has a lot more impact I suppose written things it does go through not everyone who is reading this it's just hard to meet and have meetings about that I also want to say why I don't do it this year because sometimes you get overloaded emails which is just hard to make they still listen to them it's not like loads every single day it's very true that a lot of people listen more in person that's why I've integrated the one office area for the faculty and I also think that going around to classes people who had a time period people who are a team of older QG 13 or QG 15 or HD 20 to go right to them and say what's ever important maybe every two or three weeks I think in person people will actually be more willing to listen and more willing to contact you I agree that emails seem to be huge it's like talking to my class that I find that nobody actually it was loads of emails from everyone and it was just that they weren't interested in at all and I do understand that this is the thing in the SU that everything has to be sent out to the people in case they do have an interest in it and fair enough that was posted on the students' union page fair enough that is a good reason but I think for events maybe Facebook events although you do get a lot of them some people do actually read them like I don't know what you're buying that's really really important definitely when I talk to the class about it comments and lectures Describe your perfect Sunday I'm going to share the pack pack of soda newspaper I don't know I suppose I'm going to do a daily mind I'm going to go out to the sunset and do my life and just realise I really want to be business back for the rent and you know how I'm going to get it and I'm going to go run up and down this beach using the light because Jesus is like I'm just going to let this out go I guess it's the right place to tell people about it so thank you for having me We were trying to put on the I don't know my perfect Sunday but maybe for this I have a fair way to go out and get out of town and just get ready for the role no politics to do and just go home and I'm into a lot of nails and makeup so I do that for people sometimes so it's something that I like to do so I don't mind doing a few bobs on the weekends I don't really get home very often so my perfect Sunday went to go up to my granny's house to see her from around her and we'd see another family and just going home spend time with my family and just to sit around the fire on a nice summer evening and watch the sun set I've got more for the inventory here and just mess the moment nice and smooth and just get nothing to worry about saving and just have a good time for life Thank you Thank you Thank you very much for that For what I'd like to point out on the faculty fall or on our faculty fall what I wish to answer is definitely I'd like to bring in a faculty fall I'd really like to have this at the start of semester one so that everyone would get to know each other as well as that in semester two I feel like there is a lot of all and that's great but I kind of want more in semester one and it'd be great to try to get everyone to know who's willing to have our own student event and it's definitely a faculty fall and not just a faculty fall but other events during the year as well obviously you will be able to pull off two falls because two falls will be expensive but yeah definitely follow Christine be something that should be done for Christmas I totally agree with that to let everyone get to know each other better that they are young it might say in a lot of people and yet even more active in society life because behind the scenes they've got a society you'd be like oh yeah I'll join that so I might enter in them having that one effect to get people more to get involved so yeah I want to bring in a faculty fall as well so that I can have a great night get a pop in the nighter and I want to try to stop getting to meet people because I know one of the falls was the first time I ever met somebody from home which was like a really big thing for me but I would like to bring one in and get people to do sales you don't have to get to know different people like me in the sales since semester one I've been in the first year so I'm going to get to making other people from my course because I know for my course there's about 250 of us so at night time you're one of the people that who are in class because you're probably 12 so yeah I definitely want to bring in a lot and let everybody meet each other and just bring a little faculty together or a company I'd actually just like to say that I'm a business lawyer and I actually don't agree with my people going off and I just think it's not a good idea, certainly because two of the biggest societies in the U.C. are business societies they were one of the business girls who basically has a grant to commence and especially my own friends if you guys want to get your students to have a comment and this is what's happening when you formulate a business career this is all a problem and just a graduating team from the U.C. a faculty of graduate students who has grant of all that you can do a lot of grant of that and you can provide policies and you can provide them to graduate students what actually matters is what would be just a vague concept of how it would work and I think that's just how it would be to work out and so the question is everyone's come up with great ideas what can you give examples of your experience and actually implement an idea as they get themselves to grant is that a share? So, to be honest I don't really have many big events, social event experiences that I manage an event but I honestly think there is too strong societies within the business field, the U.C. and ANA and I think together with them the world could be a huge thing and people talking and also promoting societies at the same time which is important in student life is to promote the society because outside of the academic structure that's what you have to socialize so I think LinkedIn with them would be the best thing So, in the past I've actually organized events I've organized a real big concert in Moscow I'm used to having to be a leader and to have to manage people but at the same time you can turn that everything into movement so I think from that experience because I've done that for three years so I'm used to what you all want to do you don't want to have to do ideas and implement them and as I said I want to do exercise so like lecturers have two originally students so why should I have to wrap up two hours with things that I've said for students where people come to me and talk to me or whatever and try to address their problems straight off and try to fix things as soon as they're arising and make them tell me in the air and then I'm not going to stress what it is to you Okay, so this year I've had to deal with a lot of the important people with ideas and reality so we've had our post-tour we've had one of eight but the biggest thing is probably the here in the industry came to me they gave me the passports and I've seen a family that didn't tell me anything and obviously I was able to bring other people to Madrid and I didn't know where they were going because there was a lot going on and nobody died nobody nearly died a little bit and Cristina actually got in a military to change the flights and I was really annoyed because I don't care about flights Yes, so I did go on that mystery tour and of course the flights were on the 8F 349 so it's a great event I've only been in clubs for a year so I can't have the experience that other people have and it's been great but I can't go on that role however in my past I only came in the past two months ago I organised a mystery tour and for about 16 students that was a great craft and I actually have another past I've organised I organised a graduation I organised the dead I organised so many events for that for 130 people I organised our first school's awards ceremony for six years so I really didn't know how to organise an event I didn't know how to have the opportunity to organise events and implement all the changes that I wanted to do for you If there's past to the audience or else I want to rank you just take one of those rings It's been lovely What does it mean to you The first person is a week What does it mean? They've been able to represent the business party which we never took in In my school I was basically the Facebooker they made I did everything that was involved in businesses and even now I'm still doing that so after the minute I was a part of the TCU It was just a very simple professional idea for one of the scholarships so that's something that I was really passionate about and my question for that for that kind of business is on a legal level and if you watch the video you will see how passionate I am so like it would just have been so much to me if I was elected like it's just something that I really want and know something I would be really weird out and you know if there's no more to describe I love the TCU business because it was never meant to be and it was stupid to be the person that I am but I should take it It's to me Look if you come out there and do a shot you'll see they'll be able to watch it all the time but you can't see it I'm sweating Yeah, that basically seems like why I wanted to help I think I'd represent the TCU business thanks for that I think I'm a handsome person so that's good I used to be I also think I'm actually everything that there is in the business students I go to most of my lectures I do feel like I'm good presence I'm easy to talk to people who like talking to me and in general I feel like this is back to me so thank you very much I actually mean so much to me I actually love to have this room I'm just so passionate about it I'm so devoted and one of my aims is freeing guest speakers I'm doing that next week which kind of shows how actually driven I am so much so that I'm getting one of them done in a week I do love to be the face of TCU I love to be someone who can everyone can approach and everyone can talk to I do just mean so much to me as Louise said I'm really, really love to go to I think I need a lot to me because it's a primary part of that I've done for years comparing some of the skills I think in the last few years I wouldn't have passed around when I were being made because in the students I would have passed around because they were thinking of the students I wouldn't have passed around or that was a mystery I would have passed around for a period of time and as I said a year on working with the US it just depends a lot on my own submission so I've managed a lot of people and a lot of teams and a lot of classes in the past few years and I'd love to move on to something bigger so thank you so to finish the listings I'm going to give each candidate one minute to submit or to get some soothing remarks to mention something that hasn't been brought up yet and you're going to go in the same order that you did your openings in so we're going to start with Niall, then Christine and Michelle and Louise so you all have 60 seconds okay guys so why are all your papers so I have a lot of experience to back that up everything I've said I will think it was achievable and I've had a lot of experience with the candidates here and I believe I have done a lot of skills that I can use for this role for example rent managing managing people dealing with issues and how to actually get stuff done in the college is different than having ideas and how to get stuff done when I was acting at things where business is easy and there was going to be a lot of issues but the fact that I'm actually going out there and I've already shown that I'm the initiative to talk to people I've gotten an experience I've gotten feedback from people I'm going to actually do this stuff when I'm saying it I'm going to do this on your face I'm going to do it going to a good few of my lectures both for being out thanks William yeah so only my first year I could not have as much experience someone who's a bit older doesn't mean I don't have experience but first of all I'd like to thank Beard for all the work she's done as first year students I've been able to do so well they were all our emails all our help that's been amazing especially for everyone I was about to tell you I'm really passionate about the business field and everything it has to offer and I'm a little more for you to give me the opportunity to make these changes in the country my name is Christine Brown I want you to put me number one for business back to you Christine said first year you don't get a lot of experience but I do have a bit of life experience not just college experience and being honest with you I wasn't going to go from business family rep but my friends and my family and my boyfriend taught me to he pushed me to do it so I think that I could be a good family rep and hopefully and I won't let you down I'll get everybody to join in that I was there in my manifesto first year so maybe I don't have any experience in here doing business so it's something that I'm really comfortable in I organize events I know what I'm doing I'm used to that to people so I think that I'm actually really good for this run I can represent not only our students but international students in the business because obviously I do think that I am classed as well so I think that I can represent everybody as a whole I think my ideas are really good and that they're going to implement because I know what I struggle with so I don't want other people to struggle with them I want to fix the problems and I don't want them being in the standard I want the standard to be as much just more and more so that we can be a first class or a class business group so I'm going to start and please vote me for business faculty rep Thank you Welcome to all of our companies and actually do my it was working and then it crashed because everyone held down at the exact same time so we are working on it and we do have six days to vote so don't worry about that for now, I ran reports for all of our candidates I couldn't tell them to be honest well done going down to get a close up nice and close so I didn't cut my arm is that what you're doing to me? I'm not loving this oh god no so if this is on YouTube our portfolio is like 20 credits so I can just put this straight in and see what I did Sure am, you know, they're all very good, fuck, yeah. It is in my bag. I was going to, see if this is going to die, you see. Oh yeah. Only the drain was gone. Okay. Would you mind if I take it? Take it. Which one's on there, you know? Haven't heard. It's here for a good time. I don't know. Oh, is this live streaming? Yeah. Yeah, only sightseeing. Can I get up there and fucking... I got a really nice new t-shirt today. Right today, of course, Luke. Yeah? This is not it, but this is it. Yeah? I'm just not... I'm going to have to do it just in case. If I could meet all candidates who are having debates today up in the corner, maybe some information. So that's all kind of debates for president, for welfare, for education, for engagement, for academic affairs, for clubs, societies, and Irish language. It's not the coverage level. It's a whole set of watchers here. The whole cast is here. It's the end of my stream now, so can I watch it around even more? Kind of. Yeah, I actually watch it. I actually watch it. Huh? I actually watch it. Oh yeah. I was there. I'm getting this ball going. It was shit. What was it actually? It was a... You wear it. I don't like it, I think. Not for this one, but pretty much. Focus. I love it. It's all the way. Oh. All the way. All the way. All the way. All the way. All the way. All the way. All the way. All the way. All the way. All the way. All the way. That's the last ball, guys. That's what we don't have, like, the last ball. Yeah, actually the last. And then when do you... I emailed Jeremy to say that the deadline is... ...the same way that... You're asking yourself a question? Who's that? Oh, they're not dead. I hope so. What reason? I emailed Jeremy to say, like, the deadline for Friday... ...for an online news story for Tuesday is ridiculous. I was like, I think it's... We have to pitch our stories by Friday... ...for next Tuesday. I said, it's ridiculous for online. I said, whatever about radio, we'll record it. I said this, and I was like, I was speaking on behalf of class. And he was like, I don't know what 30D I have... ...to speak on behalf of class. Yeah, I was like, oh well. Because there's been a channel... ...that wants to help us out. He was like, you're the only one to raise this issue with me today. We should do a poll on Facebook... ...and then screenshot the results to him. He was like, you're the only one to raise this issue with me today. I was like, no, are you raising with you? He was like, no one's raised this issue with me. I raised it in class, and the others did as well. And he stood up in public class and said, oh, it's an issue. Like, it's such a problem. Like, that's his problem. New bar, huh? Where's good in town... ...that I can get my nails done without having any problems? No, I can make it happen. If it's possible, could all presidential candidates... ...please come to the stage? Am I nice? Am I nice? No, you're definitely not. We're only better today. We can't spoil it in any way. Okay, thank you very much, everybody. I'm just going to explain to you what's happening... ...while presidents make their way to the stage. So, today we have hustings for... Do you have a question? Today's hustings are going to involve... ...all of the full-time and part-time positions. We are going to start off with the president... ...to, you know, make sure they get a good grilling. Then we are going to move on to clubs officer... ...then societies officer, then Irish language officer. After that, we will go to... ...VP education and placement, then VP welfare and equality... ...then VP engagement and development... ...then finally VP academic affairs. Each candidate for clubs, society and Irish language... ...will have three minutes to introduce themselves... ...before we go on to questions. Candidates for all other positions... ...because they've already had a hustings... ...will only have two minutes to introduce themselves... ...before we go on to questions. We're going to try to keep things as tight as possible... ...so that people can get back to class... ...and stuff like that. All candidates for president are on to the stage, please. Talk with Cormac Kilty, could they let him know he's starting now? These lights streamed, so if anyone has any objection to recordings... ...you're going to have to make your objection known right now. Okie doke, yay for transparency. We're going to start off with presidential postings... ...and they have three minutes to introduce themselves... ...and we're going to start off with Cormac Kilty. Every part of it is less about technology... ...and it's more about you as a person building your own product. Whatever it is you are... ...you're going to get better at that. What's that? What's up? Drop the beat, right? No, alright. Yes, I'm a manifesto. One of the things I have, which haven't been mentioned yet... ...are the Jiu-Jitsu classes for every student... ...for free in the hope once a week. Why I'm doing this is because I think... ...self-defense is very important. People of Jiu-Jitsu are martial arts that is good at diffusing a situation... ...without hurting yourself or someone else. Obviously the best form of self-defense is running away... ...but that's not always possible. So this is just one thing that I like students to be able to get involved with. It's just Jiu-Jitsu. It's a good thing as well, it's good for fitness, it's a nice thing to learn... ...and feel more confident in yourself. Apart from this, I've got open competitions for everyone... ...to get involved with. It's stuff like... ...the competitions cover lots of things. You can be app development, design, sports... ...even event suggestions as well. So I want people to come together every month... ...and vote for other students' ideas. So it's not just the SU putting things out. It's the students themselves putting things forward... ...and then other students picking these things up... ...and telling us what to put on. That way we'll have a better idea of what to put on for the students... ...because I want to break down the walls between the SU and the students... ...and make people more connected and believe themselves more. Because I think that's very important for everyone. Yeah, 30 seconds left. I'd encourage everyone to just read my manifesto. Everything about it is about you more than technology... ...and more than devices. We need connections and desires. That's what I believe. If the students are happy, the college is going to be good. That's what I think. I want to be everyone's friend. That's me really. Yeah, 10 seconds left. I hope you vote for me. I'll do a great job. I believe in you and I hope you believe in me. Communication student here at DCU. I've had the most amazing time the last few years... ...and I really want to give back to everyone here and every student. I feel like I'm the best candidate here... ...to reach across all aspects of the student body... ...no matter what it be. Some of my ideas very quickly are based around the library. I want to redistribute the hours. It's very hard to add working hours... ...but it gets easy to change the hours. Let's close it a bit earlier on week one... ...and let's add those hours on around exam times... ...at weekends, etc. I think that's very possible and very achievable. We'll have no venue. So this wonderful space is going to be gone next year. I think I can work around that. I've got some great ideas for events... ...put on and off campus... ...including two festivals. October Festival in semester one... ...and Gay Pride Festival in semester two. Finally, another point that's actually on the J1s... ...they've gone hard to get. They're not easy anymore. I've been chatting to a lot of students... ...and they all want to go on J1s. So to remedy that situation... ...I want to have workshops... ...like Marisa Training, Cocktail Workshops... ...and Bar Training. For you guys to do here on campus... ...that upskills you as individuals... ...makes it easier for you guys to get the interviews... ...to get the jobs... ...and get the visas so you can go on... ...and have an amazing time in the States... ...over the summer. Another thing for me is the amalgamation... ...I'm really passionate about that. I think it's the most refreshing... ...and one of the greatest things... ...to have happened at DCU. There's great potential down there... ...for engaging all the students... ...across all campuses... ...and I want to have events... ...on and off campus... ...and I want to work with the Pats... ...the two Pats physicians really well. I spoke to the current ISEU... ...in order to pass it off. You guys are here today... ...it's good to see you. I feel like I've definitely had... ...the great plan in place... ...to emerge and amalgamate... ...these two campuses... ...these two great campuses together. Thirty seconds... ...anyone who knows me knows charity... ...is very important to me. So if I'm an elected ISEU president... ...then I'll have 100,000 euro... ...a target of fundraising. True things like doing big bar of steel... ...run by the ISEU... ...but it costs all campuses... ...to mature in the country... ...and then little things like... ...Gujan appreciation there. For one day only... ...six Gujans cost you $550... ...but the 50 cent towards the charity. These little simple things... ...can have a big impact... ...on our community here at DCU. Guys, thanks so much for listening. Appreciate it. Okay, there are an awful lot of seats... ...left at the front... ...especially if you can't hear at the back. So now you have 10 whole seconds... ...to move before I go on to the next speaker... ...if you can't hear at the back. You're perfectly happy. Loads of seats at the front... ...especially at the side over here. Next up is Ivan. How's it going guys? My name's Ivan. I'm 21 years old. I'm a final year chemistry student... ...from Mayo. I'm your current science health faculty rep... ...former events officer treasurer... ...the music society... ...former board member of the SLC... ...and now I hope to be... ...our next student's union president. I believe myself that... ...a college education is about... ...boarding Sydney lectures for four years. I have reversed myself in student life... ...since I started DCU... ...and I hope to encourage others to do the same. I've had an amazing year... ...representing my faculty... ...achieving a number of the goals... ...I set out to do most more... ...and now I hope to represent... ...the whole student body. One of the most important things... ...happening this summer is... ...incorporation with Sympax... ...Matter Day... ...All Hallows and the CICE. It's important that the union... ...has a new format, a strong format... ...that has a solid start for the years to come. I was speaking to a couple of... ...Sympax College students yesterday... ...and the vast majority of them had no idea... ...how the format was going to work. They didn't think they had an SU next year... ...they didn't think they had two sabbaticals... ...based on their campus. It's important that they know... ...that they have sabbaticals there... ...to represent them. They know who we are... ...what we do... ...how we can support them. I believe I am the best person... ...to lead that initiative. Also, of course... ...our hope development. We're losing the venue space here... ...I would likely have to move into it. We'll have no OBAR for rehearsal spaces... ...performing spaces. Obviously it's important that... ...any club, society, individual... ...or group that wants to host an event... ...has somewhere to do that. I hope to work with everyone... ...to make sure they're accommodated. Mental health is very important to me. It's high on my manifesto. There has been a lot done to... ...reduce the stigma associated... ...with poor mental health... ...but there's a lot more to be done. I myself wouldn't be the person I am today... ...not comfortable at DCU... ...without the societies I joined... ...the circles I became a part of... ...and I firmly believe that... ...encouraged student engagement... ...openness... ...twenty seconds... ...so I'll cut to the end. What you should vote for me... ...I'm passionate about DCU... ...I give a hundred percent to everything... ...I set my mind to... ...I really appreciate it... ...if you give me a number one vote... ...from now when the website is working again... ...once and next Wednesday. Thanks very much. Hi guys... ...my name is Sean Cassidy... ...I'm a second year... ...economist, politician, law student... ...and I'm an access student. I'm running to be the next student... ...to be the president... ...because of the stories I hear... ...week on week. I hear the story of the post-grad student... ...who turns around to me... ...and says it's a good week... ...when I only break down crying twice. I hear the story of the CS2 student... ...says I got a hundred and seventy-five euro fine... ...being two weeks late... ...for paying my fees. That person gets no grant... ...that person has to pay three thousand euro. I'm running for the student... ...who turns around to me and says... ...I've got twenty referrals... ...from the counseling service... ...to the medical center. That's cost me nineteen times... ...by twenty euro. That's an awful lot of money. For me, I think this union... ...has worked an awful lot harder... ...and an awful lot better for our students. I think it's not only our job... ...just to represent students... ...I think it's our job... ...to actively represent students. Some of the issues I want to address... ...I want to introduce free microwaves. Food is expensive on campus... ...when a student turns around to me... ...for Tuesday... ...and says I only have five euro... ...for the rest of the week... ...that's an issue. So we should be providing services... ...and facilities for them... ...so that they can bring in food... ...and eat it up for themselves. On top of that... ...I want to invest in getting... ...phone charging workers. So that if your phone is dying... ...you can throw it into a phone... ...charging locker... ...and collect it after class. I want to run renters rights workshops... ...so that students know... ...their rights regarding accommodation... ...so that they don't lose... ...their deposit towards the end of the year. Other issues... ...I want better representation. So I think... ...a lot of people are looking... ...very nervous about the incorporation. We actually should be looking at it... ...as a vast positive opportunity. If you look at PACS... ...and the level of engagement they have... ...for me I think they have a good engagement... ...because they have good local government. And that's what we need... ...at a faculty rep level. We need to empower our faculties... ...give power to faculty reps... ...and establish working groups... ...give them budgets... ...and supports and resources... ...so that they can try... ...and build the level of engagement... ...that PACS has. I suppose I'm running for president... ...because I believe... ...I have the right understanding... ...ideas and passion. Thanks. Hey guys... ...my name is Aiyu Pashir... ...I'm Reggie from Eretria... ...and I'm running for S.P. President obviously. So the street things I stand for... ...first of all is representation. For those of you guys who don't know... ...for the last five years... ...I've been working as an access mentor. I've been working directly with students... ...helping them get into... ...helping them get into... ...helping them get into... ...get used to college life... ...and helping them with their studies. For the last two years... ...I've been working as a coordinator... ...helping mentors... ...helping mentors help students. So... ...sorry. The three things I stand for... ...representation. I want to represent all the students... ...from all different backgrounds. In my manifesto... ...I talked about having an international week. I want to represent students... ...from all different backgrounds. I want to build a diversity DCU. There's 22% of the students... ...in DCU are international. And I'm Reggie from Eretria... ...and a lot of people here... ...don't know where that is from. I want to build on that. And I also want to build on Irish. I want to represent everything. I want to represent diversity. This is the first thing I stand for. Second is opportunity. Like Dylan was talking about J1. I want to provide opportunity for students... ...to help them get part-time jobs. And I want to do that by helping them... ...training them in practical skills... ...versus skills like you're saying. Manual handling, food training. These things are expensive. I don't want to help... ...get students discounted... ...to get these training skills. Third thing I stand for is... Third thing I stand for is community. I want to build a bigger community in DCU. For those of you guys who know me... ...I'm approachable, I'm friendly... ...I want a student union to be... ...I want a student union president... ...to be friends with all the students. And therefore, I want you guys to vote for me. I'll put the wire there last time. So, the first question... ...which has come in from a few different people... ...is who are you pushing as number two on your ballot? And Dylan... That's a good question to start off with. Obviously it's been something I've been thinking about quite a lot. A lot of the candidates are very strong... ...on a very personal level. I think Ayub is the guy I'll be putting number two. He's known him for years... ...and he's definitely one of the friendliest guys... ...that I've ever come across in my whole life... ...and never mind on campus. Sean is also an extremely strong candidate. He's been around, he knows the knowledge... ...he has the inside knowledge... ...and it's a testament to it. He knows his stuff about DCU. So Ayub and Sean... ...I want to talk something to you guys. I don't know if you want to fight it out for my number two. See what happens. I'm not sure if I actually want to answer it to you guys. I don't think it's quite fair to put that to us for all this together. I admire all the lads... ...and this question is put to the humanities... ...and my career facility as well. I personally haven't decided yet. That came back to bite me. I asked this yesterday for humanities. What I will say though... ...is the aim of the question was actually... ...for me was to try and ask you... ...what can you say possibly about other candidates? And for me, I think Ayub brings an awareness... ...in the international community... ...that we have had for a long time. For me, Ayub and the work he's done this year... ...particularly with nurses building... ...an appreciation day for nurses... ...was quite impressive. For me, Dylan introduced a good charity element... ...to what was traditionally called long term... ...a very large society is quite impressive. And for Cormac talk about how to break down walls... ...these are all candidates that are standing... ...and are also profiles of courage... ...because it takes confidence... ...and a certain level of... ...positive courage... ...to stand up here and talk to you. So that's why I'm waving at the moment. Well, I respect that. It's not something I talk about. It's amazing. Even declaring your name is really scary. Declaring your name, thinking that... ...you'll be great to do this role. I think everyone has different skills... ...like John was saying. You bring something else to it. So I really don't know... ...who I'll give my number 2 vote to. I haven't decided yet. Like I've been said... ...what I think all of us would make great presents... ...brings something different... ...and a different top line to this. So I really don't know what I've been deciding. Yeah, as I said at the last... ...those things I think everyone's capable for this job. It does take a lot to put your name forward for this. You know, you put your name forward... ...and suddenly people are asking you for interviews. You're on Twitter. You put yourself out there a lot. To be shot down... ...four of us won't be present. So it is a big thing. So I respect all of them equally for coming up... ...and I think everyone here could do a good job. That's it. I've heard this position and I forgot... ...that the referendum is kind of happening. It's an important referendum. It's important that students have been able to vote. I haven't yet decided what I'm going to vote... ...in that referendum as well. I have to do my research on it. But obviously... ...whoever is elected president... ...or whatever the students vote... ...it's important that the students' union... ...is handed in and supports that result. Yeah. So I'm supporting... ...yes, folks. For me, I look at the students' union... ...over a long period of time. In the 1970s, we tackled gay rights... ...we were one of the first groups to do it. In the 1980s, we tackled sectarianism in the North. In the 1990s, we tackled... ...reproductive rights in this country. The effect of this referendum will have long term... ...could really change the law. We've done the last year of marriage equality. I believe in harm reduction... ...with regards to drugs policy... ...and I think that's what this referendum does. It passed in NUIG, it passed at the U.S. Congress last week... ...and this is how the student movement works. We all talk about issues, we all take a position... ...we all unite, and then 10, 15 years later... ...we take the law. So I strongly encourage you to have a referendum. Thank you. It says that everyone really is looking forward to this answer. I think I support that. I think if most students take that... ...that's okay. I'm okay with it. I support what most of the students believe in. And I think as a president... ...if elected president... ...you should represent the students and what they feel. So it doesn't necessarily mean... ...if you support one or the other... ...that's what will happen. You should support whatever most of the students say. It's a yes for me. I think the more changes in this college the better. The more minds we can change for the best. Even if it's something controversial... ...I think it's a good thing to vote yes... ...and get something new in. The more we vote, the more we change... ...ideas and opinions, the more the old Ireland stays... ...the old Ireland and colleges stay new... ...with a new D.C.U. after all. So new things are good, yes. This is actually something I came across a few years ago... ...a couple of years ago in my course as a module... ...and it really opened my eyes... ...on how it really can change a society... ...and the real benefits to it in terms of crime... ...in our country. So simple answer, I'll be voting yes... ...and it's like I said in other things in the last few things... ...it all comes down to what the students believe... ...as president, if I was elected... ...it's what the students want to vote... ...it's what I'll represent... ...but on a personal level I'll be voting yes... ...100%. Cheers. Have they yield abysmally? How do you plan to make festivals like this work... ...without wasting more of the S.U.'s money? And the first answer... ...is Sean. Why I think those events fail... ...is because at that time of year... ...society are running high events... ...I don't think the individual movement calls... ...when they're competing with societies... ...also around that time of year... ...a lot of people are starting to go on intrapasements... ...we need to be realistic about our events... ...we have an events coordinator out there... ...it's not only last two years... ...it's the last four years where balls or events... ...have not worked properly... ...there's an element where we either have to look at... ...maybe changing the format... ...and allowing and endorsing societies... ...on their events during that time. Yeah, so why these events didn't work? I think you should just raise more awareness... ...I think you should promote these events more... ...I think you should promote these events... ...you should... ...and I'm trying to read your question. The events aren't doing good... ...because they're not interesting enough. Something like snakes on a train is interesting... ...because a lot of people on a train... ...are saying to Matt, let's go do that... ...but if it's something that's common... ...or whatever, people aren't going to get the best in it... ...that's why I'm proposing that... ...a lot of the events are put forward... ...by the students themselves... ...and then other students can vote on them... ...and the best events will come out of the woodwork... ...and there'll be more interest just naturally... ...and if it's an event people want to talk about... ...and they're like, oh that's a good thing... ...I want to go, thanks. Spring break... ...because the exact same... ...as any other ball recap here for the last countless years... ...you come in here, you have to bar here... ...you have to act here... ...it's all the same... ...with no venue next year it's such a refreshing thing... ...the Imagination with Pat's so refreshing... ...events off campus, events in the canteen... ...there's so many options... ...I spoke about this at the last those things... ...and in my own personal ideas of festivals outdoors... ...October Fest... ...it's just something different... ...it really is... ...thank you, cheers, thanks. I mean the two events in particular I mentioned... ...both occurred at a time semester... ...that was completely saturated with other events... ...like Sean mentioned... ...society events, even faculty events... ...I mean I held my own science and health ball... ...recently around the same time... ...it's about hopefully... ...reducing the amount of events at that time... ...encouraging societies maybe to do their own events... ...let them have the floor... ...and possibly the issues with marketing... ...motion. There are no female candidates in the race... ...and how are you going to tackle it next year? The answer is... I'm not really upset but there's no female president... ...if there wasn't... ...if there's no female president... ...it doesn't matter whoever... ...it was open to everyone... ...and being the... ...hopefully I'll be the first black president... I'm not upset either... ...to me it doesn't matter if you're male, female... ...transgender... ...that's all... ...there's no females running next year... ...go ahead, run, you can do it... ...but the fact that there's none here... ...maybe no females wanted to do it... ...I think that's it really... ...I think everyone has the same opportunity... ...so I'm not upset. The boys raised good points... ...like anyone can run for the position... ...and do it just as well... ...it is a shame that there's no females running for sure... ...but in terms of tackling that problem next year... ...I think what you guys did this year... ...and it was really good and engaging... ...I just hope it was too late... ...and if they were done sooner... ...and everyone I think said that... ...if they were done sooner, they were really good. Cheers, thank you. I agree with exactly what the lad said... ...I think out of the number of us... ...one of the four-time positions... ...there's only two female candidates... ...I think Kim has done a great job this year... ...whether she's male or female... ...obviously, if there was a female running... ...that would be great as well... ...but they were good, they were very informative... ...very well... ...and I'm glad to say so. And we got into a lot of fights... ...but the one thing I couldn't challenge her on... ...was when she turned around and said... ...not only am I the first... ...would I be the first female president in four years... ...I'm the first woman to run in four years... ...I couldn't challenge her on that... ...because she was right... ...and to be honest, we need to look... ...at different qualities at the first point... ...on my manifesto... ...in the population of any college in this country... ...and if we aren't representative... ...in a physical form, an entire union... ...we need to look that way... ...women for election... ...women for election... Members of the SU, both staff and sabats... ...have been reluctant to speak to reporters... ...following the college paper breaking... ...a story at a society event. The role of the student media... ...is to hold those with power on campus... ...to account. If elected, will you engage with student media... ...to allow for a democratic campus? And the first answer is Cormac. Yeah, I have nothing to hide... ...so I'll talk to anyone. Throughout the time I'm up here, I almost feel like... ...I kind of feel like I'm just about to be caught out... ...or something, I feel like... ...I'll talk to anyone, I'll do any interview... ...I've done nothing to hide... ...so yeah, I'll talk to anyone, any interview anytime. Thanks. The college media here, as I said... ...is one of the strongest campuses... ...for college media in the country... ...and it's there for a very good reason... ...it's there to distribute info... ...to across the campus, to everyone here... ...why not interact with it? It's there for that reason... ...it should be utilized... ...for the SUN and for the student's end. So yeah, absolutely. It was actually approached myself for an interview... ...over an event that was held... ...but I didn't engage because I wasn't there... ...and couldn't provide any information. But I think to kind of address the nature of the question... ...I think certain people were contacted... ...for the previous interviews... ...to have used one representative correctly. So yeah, I'm all for it as long as... ...the way things are actually made use of that. So yeah, as a former section editor... ...with the college view... ...I remember when... ...a paper got trending... ...and said we're going to lose our phone... ...if we kept recording while we were recording... ...and it's not good enough... ...this is the primary journalism college in this country... ...and our journalism students put a lot of hard work in... ...a accountability... ...and the college media are fundamental here... ...to make the students union work better. If we don't engage with them... ...we don't answer their questions... ...not only are we not doing our job... ...we're doing the service to our democracy here. First of all, I'd like to say it's terrible that the... ...SU is not communicating well with the media... ...because that's how you establish communication... ...between the SU and the students... ...and I think that's what... ...builds a better community. I'm sorry, but it's how I feel. But if I'm elected... ...I will not back down from any... ...if I make a mistake, I'll say it... ...and I will not... ...be afraid to communicate with any students. So many other positions to get through. So, a Wi-Fi walkway... ...would be exceptionally expensive. How do you propose to fund a project like this? Why do we need it... ...with buses and bicycles? And the first to answer... ...is Dylan. Funny enough, I sat down with Declan Rafteries... ...the chief operations officer here in the SU... ...the Wi-Fi walkway is a go... ...and it's happening. I want to ensure that it's in place... ...in September. It's not put on the back burner. Why is it there? Because it's like we said about funding here in Iran... ...not every student can afford a bus up and down... ...every time. It's a beautiful walk. It's one of the nicest roads in the country. The Long Griffith Avenue... ...and down at Declan Conjure. It's so possible, so feasible... ...and so unnecessary. I really think that. Thank you. Cheers. I'd like to agree with the fact that... ...it's better for our health... ...well, activism or... ...activeness. Walkdown just impacts... ...it encourages incorporation. Yeah. It's good. I don't think many people do walking down... ...during the wet days, winter. And what I will say is though... ...I don't think the Wi-Fi walkway is the only thing... ...that's going to happen. It's going to happen very often. We're actually working on improving Wi-Fi quality... ...on campus. I've only got access to Wi-Fi... ...my phone has never worked up at the moment. I've gone from building to building. You just see where it's bad and where it's going to be... ...to make it better on campus. Thank you. I have 3G, so I don't know that. I've said we should improve the Wi-Fi on campus... ...like the walkway. I don't know. One of my manifesto... ...I talked about providing the campuses... ...like for students to travel from... ...between campuses. So the walkway, I don't know... ...for me, I think the improvement... ...improvement of Wi-Fi on campus... ...will be better. Yeah, I'm off for the walk, but that's about the Wi-Fi. To be honest, obviously... ...walking is healthy and good for you. Again, I'd like to improve Wi-Fi here... ...but I think it's too much money for the walkway. People have 3G, and I also won't kill you... ...to not be on Snapchat for like 20 minutes. I think it's too much money on the Wi-Fi. Alright guys, my name is Ivan. I want to be your next student, student president. I've served this year as a science and health faculty rep. I've had an amazing year. I've achieved a number of goals... ...to do plus more. I have experience. I'm passionate about DCU. I believe my goals are achievable. Yeah, I've said it all. Today I've said it all yesterday. I'll say it again on Monday. And you read my manifesto. It's on my Facebook page. Please give me number one vote. Thank you. My name is Sean and I'm running for the next... ...student president. I've told you why I'm running, but to be honest... ...for me, I have a broad range of experience... ...whether it's being on the SLC, the CLC... ...attending U.S.I. Used to be on the S.U. Executive... ...and also have attended... ...various campaign events. For me, I bring a wealth of experience... ...that shows that forward planning can be good. I want to you mean that... ...catches a concern in semester one... ...so it doesn't come a problem in semester two. There are the reasons why I'm running. I want to address the cost of living issues on campus. And that's really it. I suppose it's different between the S.U. and the Student Union. An S.U. is crack, events, it's a bit of fun. A Student Union works hard to play hard... ...but the Fundamentally works hard for us. Thank you. So, my name is Ayu... ...and the main reason I'm running for S.U. president... ...is, like I said, the work I did with DAXIS... ...I feel like I helped a lot of students... ...and for the last five years... ...I feel like I've been representing these students... ...and I want to do the exact same... ...but for the whole student body. And I can't really... ...it's very hard to portray your personality... ...in like 30 seconds or one minute... ...but I hope you guys get to know me... ...if I get elected and I'm running... ...because I think I'm approachable... ...and it's weird seeing nice things about yourself... ...but I can't really force you guys to vote for me... ...but if you're getting vote, I hope you go with the flow. The name's Kildi... ...and for me again... ...it's less about politics, more about life. You make a living by what you get... ...but you make a life by what you give... ...and I want to give back to everyone who... ...the people who aren't involved... ...and how much you can improve your life. Even just talking to people... ...I hear they go into the library... ...one o'clock, stay there till it closes... ...go home, eat, wake up, repeat... ...I just want less of that... ...I want people to be in college... ...when they don't have college on... ...I want it to be an environment where they're like... ...I like being in college... ...I'm going to go in anyway... ...because I've got X, Y and Z going... ...so don't go for X, Y, Z... ...go for C, B and D... ...I've got so much for them... ...the welfare front and the educational front... ...it's really made me who I am today... ...and I really want to give back to the students... ...I feel like I'm definitely the person who can engage... ...more students across all of campus... ...be it politically or socially... ...or just engaging them across the board... ...and yeah, it's my time to give back... ...I'm really passionate about this... ...take so much for listening to me... ...every time I'm out on the playground... ...and talking to you guys... ...but I really, really appreciate it... ...to get through. Would you like to listen to their potential welfare officer? Sorry, sports... ...I'm going to start with the club's officer... ...hostings... ...we're going to start off with the S5... ...then go to Phillip... ...then go to... ...USU as secretary... ...and I've also had a great involvement... ...with DCU Amateur Boxing Club... ...sitting on their committee as well... ...with the three facts... ...so our incorporation... ...coordination and dedication... ...with the... ...upcoming... ...incorporation of DCU... ...say Pat and Martyr Day... ...I think it's really important to make sure... ...that everybody has an equal voice... ...and no club gets lost... ...I've been down to Pat... ...and I've been in constant contact... ...with their current club's officer... ...Amory... ...and I've also been talking to Martyr Day... ...and the current club's officer... ...DCU Mail Cabinet as well... ...one of the things in Pat is really important... ...to keep their fitness classes... ...and it's also really important... ...to keep their free GAA courses... ...they were set up this year... ...and they were a vital part... ...of the Pat's club scene... ...so I would work really hard to keep those... ...and... ...I would also... ...coordination... ...it's vital for clubs... ...to be coordinated with societies... ...the SCU... ...and also courses as well... ...so... ...first societies... ...we've already seen... ...RAG Rumble this year... ...it was great... ...I participated in it myself... ...it was a great charity event... ...great success... ...raised a lot of money... ...I would love to continue... ...these great connections... ...and keep them going... ...moving on... ...I would also like to work with... ...Mental Health Society... ...and students... ...for sustainability... ...healthy lifestyle... ...because we all know... ...Mental Health and Physical Health... ...go hand in hand... ...I would love to keep working on that... ...and... ...with the SCU... ...I've set as a classroom for my class... ...I've taken all their issues on board... ...I have gone... ...to... ...the lecturers... ...who needs to be talked to... ...and everybody... ...I have brought up their issues... ...and addressed them... ...I would do the same... ...with any clubs... ...if they have issues... ...I would address them... ...and like... ...we don't want problems... ...we all want solutions... ...so that's what I'm here to do... ...the courses as well... ...ATT have provided a great service... ...for different clubs... ...and gone to their training sessions... ...and also for matters... ...I would like for ATT... ...to be recognised for these... ...and also keep it up... ...because I'd love... ...that is a great connection... ...that clubs have... ...and I'd love to keep it going... ...the unique module... ...as well as my last key point... ...it's open to everybody... ...but only some students... ...can get the... ...five credits... ...so I would really look... ...for recognition... ...for the dedication students... ...put in... ...for being part of a club... ...I would love to work... ...with... ...the incoming faculty reps... ...society officer... ...VP... ...of... ...academic affairs... ...and VP of engagement... ...and development... ...and work on this... ...to make this open for all... ...so... ...other points are on my manifesto... ...and that can be seen... ...on my Facebook page... ...my name is Sidekandan... ...I would love your number one vote... ...I'm experienced... ...motivated... ...and ready for a change... ...Kandan for clubs... ...Kandy will do... ...thank you... ...and the archery community... ...in the last... ...over the last few years... ...I've helped the archery... ...club... ...go from strength to strength... ...it was a... ...nearly bankrupt... ...one year... ...so... ...I am... ...fixed the finances... ...be able to... ...just... ...sort of it... ...other experiences... ...I have... ...I was on the CRC... ...in my first year as a class rep... ...I was... ...on the Electoral Commission... ...so... ...I have experience... ...on the lab side things... ...I've also... ...last year I was elected... ...as... ...the chair of the CLC... ...so... ...like in my term... ...as part of the... ...incorporation process... ...we are... ...trying to put in... ...the liaison position... ...so this will... ...work... ...with all campuses... ...to make sure... ...clubs are represented everywhere... ...and... ...also as part of my manifesto... ...is to strengthen the bonds... ...between... ...the SU... ...to... ...maintain bonds... ...on the... ...CLC... ...and... ...also the club members themselves... ...this is to... ...also... ...engage the club members... ...to... ...try... ...to engage... ...because... ...that was a problem this year... ...because... ...a lot of... ...clubs... ...had their enterprises on... ...had events on... ...on our campus... ...a lot of people didn't know that... ...so... ...one of my goals was to... ...set up... ...the red calendar... ...in an app... ...or... ...work with ISS on that... ...just to... ...get the street body to know... ...what's going on on campus... ...I was also... ...wanted... ...more coverage of the events... ...to talk to college media... ...get an extra page... ...in the sports section... ...BC TV... ...you can do a montage... ...every month... ...for 90... ...and also talk to... ...BC FM... ...other things... ...I was looking at... ...was... ...fundraising... ...because... ...CLC... ...can grant... ...a lot of money... ...which... ...they have to go by policy... ...some... ...a lot of things are outside... ...policy... ...so I was looking at this... ...fundraising idea... ...that worked at... ...other colleges... ...this was to... ...sort a raffle... ...and semester run... ...with a fairly impressive... ...first price... ...and... ...this... ...hopefully... ...will help the clubs... ...in the back way... ...other ideas was... ...just to... ...get... ...the... ...on Wednesdays... ...to get students... ...free... ...on Wednesdays... ...to do clubs and stocks... ...any other... ...my ideas are... ...on my manifesto... ...if you get any questions... ...come apart with me... ...so... ...vote for film... ...I hope I have your... ...number one vote... ...thank you... ...so this year... ...the reason of going... ...is compared to those... ...since the small age... ...so you know... ...I play basketball... ...ball everything... ...and I love the sense of community... ...to get... ...from clubs... ...so what are you seeing... ...what is lacking here... ...that I had in... ...secondary school... ...like I was probably... ...we were... ...truly on the basketball finals... ...and the craze we got there... ...just... ...it made it feel... ...special... ...and I love to get that here... ...at DCU... ...so if... ...if the club is playing... ...a big final... ...or has a big event... ...I want to... ...put the size... ...so I want everyone... ...in the new bar... ...having a good time... ...on post-sleep... ...and DCU... ...back in the clubs... ...as much as I can... ...but other than that... ...I want to bring in... ...a triad scheme... ...so... ...silly... ...but I wanted to join... ...Jimmy Tramp this year... ...I want to see... ...put a little flip... ...eh... ...so I can't do a flip... ...but I... ...didn't want to go there... ...on myself... ...it's like... ...everyone thinking... ...wearing it up... ...so... ...I don't know... ...if there's a triad scheme... ...that... ...people are all novices... ...to be shown the ropes... ...by people that are actually... ...the head of the clubs... ...and they have to do things... ...and I want things recorded... ...by DCUTD... ...so... ...it further promotes the club... ...and then also... ...it gets to show people... ...that... ...if you can do what I can do... ...maybe one day... ...everyone will be able to do things... ...eh... ...on from that... ...I want to... ...work real closely... ...with the society officers... ...because... ...I think societies... ...are a lot bigger... ...than clubs here... ...and that shouldn't be the case... ...so I want to work... ...with the society officers... ...like... ...like what I was saying... ...with Ragnon... ...I saw... ...like... ...I would get interested in boxing... ...and make friends with Shane Cary... ...even through that... ...which is... ...eh... ...eh... ...so I want more events... ...bringing societies... ...and clubs together... ...to promote clubs... ...as much as possible... ...I want to work on... ...fonding as well... ...so I want... ...smaller clubs... ...to be able to get... ...fonding the same way... ...beer clubs... ...get to fond them... ...and true events... ...like... ...say the bosses are leaving... ...to bring people to... ...a bigger match... ...add an extra... ...50 cent on... ...the boss... ...and let those... ...distributes... ...get to be smaller... ...because I want all clubs to be equal... ...eh... ...I'm not going to talk for three minutes... ...because I'm able to think to say... ...I'm calm... ...we'll have a room for clubs... ...thank you... ...you need the opportunity to ask as well... ...so we're going to start off with this question... ...and Philip will answer first... ...how do you plan on... ...incorporating the Irish language... ...into your role? How would it... ...incorporate the Irish language? ...eh... ...I'll just... ...well obviously in the emails... ...just get more Irish... ...eh... ...learn a bit more myself... ...work with the Irish officer... ...on ideas... ...eh... ...on how to... ...go about this... ...eh... ...they can be added to... ...eh... ...all clubs posters... ...for their events... ...just eh... ...just a symbol... ...for the Irish... ...a lot of the Irish language... ...eh... ...that's all the... ...ideas I would have... ...eh... ...start at least... ...strain and... ...and... ...I got started... ...in the choice sessions... ...in the choice sessions... ...to just... ...troll... ...because there are people from... ...in this college... ...even if they are teaching... ...simple phrases... ...like... ...boy out there... ...boo... ...I'm not going to get in much... ...vast there... ...we're even simple phrases... ...and... ...or great... ...and everything... ...thank you... ...and that's actually... ...keep out my manifesto as well... ...so I would like to work... ...closey... ...with the... ...income and Irish officer as well... ...so... ...promote it like... ...couple of focal here and there... ...on posters... ...like Philip said... ...and then as well... ...what I would like to do... ...is... ...work towards... ...if anybody's heard of... ...okay they're the first Irish... ...GAA... ...so try to set up a team... ...within DCU... ...that is an all Irish... ...GAA... ...and I think... ...I've spoken with Pat... ...and this would be really... ...successful... ...because obviously you have... ...Gale Boys down there in Pat... ...and then... ...I would also like to work... ...during shops in the Gale... ...to provide clubs... ...with like... ...a list of... ...terminologies... ...so just say like... ...yes or no... ...it's not really that hard... ...so just bring in the Irish... ...language... ...wherever you can... ...whenever you can... ...but let's cheer on... Next question, which has come in... ...for all positions... ...is who are you putting... ...as your number two... ...for this position... ...and the first to answer... ...is Karl. I really like Simon Manifesto... ...to be fair... ...what I thought was really... ...impressive was... ...when she has mental health... ...and physical health... ...as equal... ...I think that's really important... ...and... ...I liked the money Manifesto... ...but I read hers... ...and I thought... ...that's somewhere where... ...I really need to improve... ...and that's where I... ...take off Simon. Like what was said... ...when the Brazins were up here... ...I think they're about... ...two great candidates... ...to put yourself forward... ...I think that each of them... ...have their own... ...individual traits... ...so I do think... ...Phil... ...has a lot of knowledge... ...by being on... ...the certain commissions... ...that he's been on... ...and I do think then... ...Karl... ...we might all know him... ...as a name from A&F... ...as well... ...he is a bit of a people person... ...so he can get out there... ...they both bring... ...different things to the table... ...and I would love... ...to just reread their Manifestos... ...again... ...I haven't voted yet... ...and I will be within the... ...coming weeks... ...come a week. I think... ...if I was to... ...pick and choose... ...I would pick Sarge... ...again... ...Rick Green and Karl... ...because... ...she is a good Manifestor... ...with mental health... ...and... ...that sort of thing... ...so... ...that's what I would do. Okay, so I have one question left... ...but are there any questions from the audience? Could I ask you to come up actually... ...because you... ...it's that you can say it into the microphone. Are there any others? I'll take it up to two... ...yeah... ...come on. ...a corporation... ...be in relation to... ...of course... ...because right now... ...do two separate... ...second-party entities... ...how do you make sure... ...is the transition be as smooth as possible? Excellent, so that's about the incorporation... ...of clubs... ...how you're going to facilitate that... ...and the first person answering is... ...Sine. So, as I said... ...I've been in contact with... ...the current club's officer... ...in both paths in DCU... ...I was down in paths yesterday as well... ...I've heard what paths have to say... ...important things like... ...their fitness courses... ...and their GA courses as well... ...I have the background behind me... ...I've been a class rep... ...for two years in first year... ...I want better representatives... ...over the years... ...so I can really... ...bring issues forward... ...and get them known... ...I've also been part of... ...DCU Boxing Club... ...which was only set up four years ago... ...for the past two years... ...or... ...the past two years... ...want best club of the year... ...and then before that... ...I want most promising club... ...I've seen what makes a great club... ...I would love to bring this... ...across the board... ...to the three different campuses... ...including DCU... ...Glass 7... ...PAT... ...and Matri Day as well... ...and I've been talking to Matri Day... ...I just don't need them out. As I said... ...I was chair of CLC... ...so I was starting to put some... ...things in the process already... ...again like I mentioned... ...the liaison position... ...so this... ...on the CLC... ...which would represent clubs... ...on all campuses... ...just to make sure... ...that they all feel incorporated... ...and also... ...as club officer... ...I would be on all campuses... ...just to make sure... ...to talk to them... ...just to see... ...if they have any issues... ...with the incorporation... ...and just... ...because we are all one... ...so... ...I just hope to make them feel... ...included... ...and that... ...maybe on each... ...on the club level... ...that each committee has on their... ...let's say on their AGM... ...has a standing item of... ...how they're including... ...all campuses... ...in their training... ...and on their events. Thanks a lot... ...I think communication will be key there... ...because the colleges... ...they're close enough... ...because they are far enough away... ...if you don't... ...communicate well... ...so you're going to have to... ...communicate... ...and then again... ...sorry... ...I don't know... ...the U.S. that was... ...having an event there. There are kind of... ...marginalized sports... ...regarding who likes to... ...sport scholarships a lot... ...because... ...I know as a fact... ...that certain clubs... ...don't even ever... ...have a chance... ...to look in... ...and it's created... ...a bit of resentment... ...so what are you going to do... ...to kind of... ...make them feel... ...a bit more inclusive? So if I get that... ...that's to get them... ...sports scholarships... ...included... ...with the smaller clubs... Yeah, like with the Argentinian... Yeah... ...and well... ...I didn't... ...yeah... ...the scholarships at the moment... ...are mainly in the... ...kind of the... ...bigger... ...the bigger membered clubs... ...like the athletics... ...they have the academies... ...soccer... ...and all this... ...well I could... ...I have already... ...closed relations... ...with the sports development office... ...so... ...I can work with them... ...on that... ...to include... ...the smaller clubs... ...like... ...there are plenty of other clubs... ...that... ...do deserve scholarship positions... ...or their colleges have them... ...why not us? So I can work with this... ...sports development officer... ...with that... ...who looks after the... ...the scholarships... ...also... ...we could... ...look at the funding... ...to see... ...if that's possible... It's going to be very hard to do... ...I wouldn't be able to make... ...any promises for next year... ...for there's something... ...you would have to really work on... ...I play basketball... ...I play the basketball club... ...the men's basketball... ...another... ...one person... ...on scholarship... ...and... ...he's been captain of Ireland... ...on the Ireland teams... ...and stuff like that... ...and it's... ...I'd like to see... ...if... ...people... ...from the smaller clubs... ...have made achievements... ...or... ...such as that... ...so say if they... ...even had an Olympic trials... ...or anything like that... ...they should... ...they should be... ...an odd lobby for that. I completely agree with that point... ...that's been made... ...I am... ...a DCU student ambassador... ...so one of the things I do... ...is go around... ...given to school students... ...turns around the campus... ...and one of the key things... ...that's always brought up... ...is the sports facilities... ...and also... ...the... ...I can't forget the... ...sports scholarships... ...yeah, sorry, thanks... ...and it's a key thing... ...that we really look at... ...the sports scholarships... ...because we're... ...DCU is full of talented people... ...and we're constantly getting... ...more and more talented people... ...in... ...we need to really appreciate... ...those people... ...and make sure... ...like with the UNI module... ...that they are getting the recognition... ...that they deserve... ...so... ...I would love to work on that... ...I'd love to work with the... ...relevant people... ...to... ...make that... ...a bigger thing... ...within DCU... ...for smaller clubs... ...to get the sports scholarships... Final question... ...and Carl will be... ...first to answer... ...if a committee member... ...comes to you... ...about another committee member... ...not pulling their weight... ...what would you do? ...so Carl is first... ...I'd talk to the... ...I'd first observe... ...I'd observe myself... ...and see... ...how I know... ...have they been doing... ...have they been lacking... ...and then... ...how confidentially... ...I'd talk to the committee member... ...and of a small word... ...I wouldn't say it... ...and I'd say it as if it was coming from me... ...and I'd say that... ...that I don't think they're pulling their weight... ...I wouldn't involve... ...standing argument there... ...and I'd just say... ...I'd try to encourage them... ...and try to get them on... ...before giving out to them... ...I wouldn't give out to them... ...unless it needs to be the one... ...if they're constantly slacking... ...and it's... ...week after week... ...and if we get... ...I'd have to step in... ...but... ...if it's one or two incidents... ...you pick up your teammates... ...it's the power of love. I would definitely talk with that person... ...see where the key issues are... ...get them to write it down... ...everything's always better... ...when it's down on paper... ...so get them to write down... ...facts and figures... ...when and where it happened... ...and everything like... ...what the issues are that are occurring... ...and then we could see... ...try... ...help... ...find solutions... ...to these problems... ...so see... ...if there are different ways... ...the situation could be handled... ...if it was in chair... ...and there was somebody on their committee... ...on their way... ...they could dedicate them... ...a certain task... ...to be done... ...and work to get that task done... ...and then if they don't do that task... ...the person would have to be gone to... ...but as Cal said... ...you're better off going in with positives first... ...you need to encourage them... ...to do more things first... ...before getting negative with them. Yeah... ...I have had some experience with that... ...in the committee level... ...where I just... ...just... ...took aside the person... ...like I would... ...whoever... ...points his out to me... ...I would just take it on board... ...then I would like... ...Carol to observe them... ...just to make sure... ...it's happening... ...and... ...like I have a kind of policy... ...like... ...give it... ...if they don't attend... ...three meetings... ...then... ...I just take them aside... ...continuously... ...have a chat... ...see... ...are they still... ...up for doing the position... ...and if they are... ...try and help them out... ...and get the rest of the committee... ...on board... ...and help them out... ...and... ...just... ...make sure they're... ...happy to do that... ...the middle tasks... ...like... ...we're all here together... ...we can all have each other out. Thank you... ...and we're going to... ...move on to... ...one minute summations... ...starting with Saif. As I said... ...my name is Saif Kandan... ...I'd really appreciate... ...your number one vote... ...my manifesto can be seen... ...on my Facebook page... ...but... ...incorporation... ...coordination... ...and recognition... ...for your dedication... ...are three key things... ...that if I was... ...your club's officer... ...I was strive to achieve... ...within DCU... ...we need to make the voice... ...of clubs in DCU... ...even bigger... ...and better... ...along with the... ...incorporation... ...new DCU... ...which will make DCU... ...bigger and better as well... ...Kandan for clubs... ...Kandu will do... ...I'd really appreciate... ...your number one vote... ...thanks. As I said... ...I'm Philip... ...running for clubs officer... ...you can see my full manifesto... ...on the Facebook page... ...my main points are... ...engagement... ...and maintaining bonds... ...between the SC and the CLC... ...and the club members themselves... ...I'm also fundraising... ...for clubs... ...as some of them need... ...the funding... ...for equipment... ...also for coverage... ...for their... ...intervarsities and events... ...also to work on... ...getting the... ...work with registry... ...to get the... ...time schedule free... ...for more... ...classes... ...to do clubs and stocks... ...and also to... ...just... ...promote clubs in general... ...and... ...again... ...I would love your number one vote... ...so thanks for listening. So what is your vote for me? Basically... ...we go back to the first point... ...we're going to bring DCU... ...together as a community... ...we're going to back... ...we're going to back our teams... ...back our clubs... ...all together... ...second reason... ...I'm going to bring in the choice scheme... ...and we get everyone trying new things... ...creating a community of people... ...trying new things... ...making new friends... ...it's going to be great... ...then we're going to amalgamate... ...with the four colleges... ...have great communication... ...together... ...I'm going to be there... ...I'm going to be dedicated... ...I'm repeating next year... ...I'm only going to do three modules... ...so this is going to be kind of like my intro... ...I'm going to have a lot of time... ...to work with the... close so thank you very much please offer me a big round of applause for all of our candidates and we're going to move on to candidates for society's officers and all the views that are eaten you're killing me. Starving. That's mostly in the app. You were really enjoying it. Now let's go back to work. In comments I'm a second year analyst and science student and this year I'm going to be your next size officer. Over the past few years I've been heavily involved with DCU. I've been in class twice and represent my class at CRC and addressed any issues they've brought to me. I've also been heavily involved with societies. I was this year chairperson of cancer society and in January I went to Honduras to Glow Brigades and last year I was in the musical DCU drama. I feel from this I've gained great insight into society life as an ordinary member and as a committee member and from this I feel I've been a great person for the job. My aims are simple. I want to build a website. I've already talked to my assistant and they agree to have me with this. The website is going to be accessible in each of you. Society is going to be able to upload who they are and what their plans for the year are and when they come to events. It's going to be easier for freshers to use during Freshers Week so they'll know who the sites are so they can sign up on Global Stocks Week. I also want to work with the corporation of St. Pat's and DCU. I want to lia between them to make sure there's no conflict between the two societies that have come together. The societies that have come together are RAG and it's invented of all of them. I also want to get rid of St. Pat's rep on societies because we're all DCU now so there's no need for this and I want to replace it with a multi-campus rep. This will ensure there's fair representation of the both campuses on the societies. I also want to make sure that the societies spend their time equally between both campuses and that events are taking place on both campuses and that committee means and everything that's happening on both ones. Furthermore I want to work with faculty reps, the Vice President of Engagement Development and the Vice President for Academic Affairs to ensure that the uni module is made contribtory across all faculties and courses. At present it's only a contribtory in humanities faculty but I feel that it should be contribtory to everyone. If you're being involved in societies you should be rewarded for this and it's something I'm passionate about and it's going to make it happen. It's a five credit module and it's going to be a difference in your final year between 2001 and 2001. I also want to work on storage spaces at present and some societies like the Music Stock have their own storage page. These are stored in the old bar which sets me knocked down so that it has somewhere else for this to go. There's also the Helix which provides a great storage space but it's only open between the hours of 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. If you have an event in the evening it's very hard to get access to this and the societies end up holding the stuff in their houses which will be on so I'm going to love to find places for storage for societies. Also as the bar is moved into the venue there's no room for there's no place for events next year. As I heard earlier which I thought was great Dylan said that this is refreshing. I like the positive look of this. It means that there is other possibilities for us to hold events. There's such as the Helix, the auditorium in St. Paul's is a great venue and there's many more popes and clubs around the primary area which could be used for society events. I think this would be a great thing for society to do and it's very refreshing for our societies. So my name is Calan Commons and I really appreciate your vote. Thank you. How's it going guys? Knock on the light. This is a bit weird standing up here probably in the venue for the first time being so much sober on a stage so it's a bit dark to knock on the light. So for those of you who don't know me my name is Luke O'Reard. I'm 21 years of age and I'm currently studying Enterprise music in my third year. I'm on my interplay some of that at the moment and explain why I'm kind of wearing weird trousers. So I don't normally dress like this. I came straight from my injury to be here right now that's just a highlight how much I actually really want disposition. So what I'm doing my injury on is IT that's what I'm studying in college and there are two key things that I've talked about my manifesto. So DCU next year as everyone knows is coming together at St. Pat's. Societies are going to have a disadvantage that are from St. Pat's to DCU and vice versa DC to St. Pat's so we have to make them more accessible to everyone. So by doing that how many people out here know there's a DCUSU app or how many of you actually have it on your phone? So we're going to make this app the first thing people do when they first come into college. They will download it. Each society will have a profile as such. So on this profile they will have their links to their social media pages or everything that they're doing. As well as this on the app there's going to be an event planner scheme. So society's PROs or whatever their event manager is will contact me and I will upload this week on a weekly basis. So this will be a platform so that every single society or student and society can see what events are happening on a weekly basis quite excessively as well on a touch of their phone rather than getting spammed by every day a Facebook event that to be honest aren't getting the reach that they used to get because there's just so much events being sent to Facebook. Other things the technology that I do want to implement next year is as we all know and everyone's mentioned it so far the hook won't be here next year but the good parts of it that we do need. So similar to what you see in the library every single for booking a room we're going to develop an online portal on the DCUSU website so that each member of the society could online just decide or sorry not decide can choose what room they want to book and this again will make rooms and things going on a lot more accessible for everyone else. Each year when societies are doing their grant apps they also get the opportunity to apply for posters. They get seven year old per event for posters as you can see out there the posters are on slightly their litter most of them are instantaneous taken down. So there's a scheme that I want to bring in next year and it might be rolled out essentially next year due to financial reasons but in each building there'll be a faculty screen this will be in St. Pat's too. It'll be updated weekly and just each student will know where to go so they can see what's going on as well 30 seconds right. As we all know storage won't be here next year so I want to bring in society lockers. At the end of each year you hear about your Trinity ball you're using the ball and that one here is meant to DCU summer ball. I'm going to get every single society involved on that date no and bring up the hot meant to DCU summer ball so it's an inter-society summer festival whether it's the day before the day of every single society's going to be involved. My name is Luke or I'm fourth year in DCU I've been involved in society since 2012 since the first year around. I really want this position and I'm not the best person for this job. For societies putting on helix based events as this sometimes poses a problem. Well being a society member that has been involved with events already in the helix take apart the DCU fashion year show for two years I don't think it poses a problem you see that's 600 people have gone to those events DCU drama at the moment are doing three nights at the helix. I know it doesn't create the sense of the hype that you get when you walk through the hope you might be in the old bar or in the new bar and you see that's a thing out of the venue but that's where I can come in place and I can help promote it and I know the app as well. When you see there's an event planner and you see that there's a thing going on the helix it's on campus it's right beside where you might be live I don't think there won't be any problem other than that you might be they say the helix are something there's other spaces in the helix there's you've got two other auditoriums that are smaller and are more accessible for other events going on so I don't see why there'll be a problem and we do have the facilities of same parts as well to use the helix next year. I imagine the helix is a great place for venues it's the ideal it's on campus it's big enough to hold enough students that want to go and DCU drama holding their musical there this week DCU music stock are holding their league there next week and it's an excellent space to use and it should be used more and it's a refreshment that we showed when we made them use it more next year. Question societies in parts such as drama, drama stock and community are successful societies how will you work to keep these societies impacts along with the same ones in DCU following the amalgamation and how? Yeah as I said earlier these societies have to come together and I can't see why this would be a brief conflict because in DCU drama and DCU drama impacts they actually work alongside each other quite a lot and so it don't see it be a problem at all and they'll be they will work with them to make sure there is easy conflict no conflict and time is spent in pre-inbo campuses so that everything is fair and equal representation. There's a lot more than just two societies in parts I was chairperson of ANF last year and we were down to say parts every time we had an event a voice-over so we got them involved with our events on campus as well. We were the first society to bring in a part rep as well last year so when parts even you saw it last week at DCU best dance group same parts of DCU drama came together and they actually came third I think on the night so I don't think next yeah Alison we know you won't come down over there so everyone I can't see why it'd be a problem DCU students and same parts students you've seen in the past they get on well if anything it's just going to create a better hype next year and two societies come together there are smaller societies in parts and we'll do our utmost best to make that every single society will be on a level platform when it comes to students signing up except ever. It's up to two, I'll take three. Both of you mentioned the positives of the helix but neither of you addressed the recent price increase I first want to know if were you aware of this and secondly how you think this will affect smaller societies that won't be able to afford this extra price. Okay so the question is about the helix both candidates were quite favourable about the use of the helix the question is are they aware of their recent price increases and how this may affect smaller societies and again having said I've been a part of events that have taken place in the helix and ticket sales had struggled at the past and there were times where the event might have been cancelled as a result of this but that's what brought the event together that's what everyone came together and said you know well actually let's go out and let's sell this. So I know the prices can be a problem and that's where we can work with our grant app as well so that societies will be at a level playing field whether they're a smaller society or larger society they all have an equal opportunity when they do go to work at the helix. Again as I said some of the auditoriums are smaller so if they don't feel like they're going to sell the 500 ticks in the Omani hall they can use the space they can use the other O'Reilly teeter as well so the helix has its positives I know you've said that the prices have gone up but I can't I will work my utmost best to make that that event will be a success next year. It's increased their prices I don't think that was fair on size in DCA because they were aware that we would have to use that next year however I don't feel that the helix is our only use of verb end use there isn't much more if we can have all of them calling you're out of gas and having many pubs and clubs there's an auditorium down in Pat's there's many other places around you so as smaller societies feel they can't be able to feel it's rented out and they've got rights they have other options they don't have to go to helix so I don't think it's too much of a problem at all. Okay so the question is about societies in St Pat's how will you ensure that societies in St Pat's can remain after the amalgamation as students in St Pat's might want to come to DCA to register for their own variety? I'm understanding that societies have to come together both Pat's and DCA because we are one everyone will be one college next year but I do think this is why I was on about my manifesto they have to work together they have to be equal in terms of each campus so that all students are looked after the same and treated the same there is no point on like everyone coming up and joining up here and not going down because that's not that's not fair on everyone in DCU so there has to be an equal meant of time equal events fair that's right down in Pat's and DCU and just so everything's fair and equal across the bookhouses. Same as Colin from the best of my knowledge it was that both societies would join together but that's where I came in to talk earlier about let's make all societies on a level bearing an accessibility so when we do have that up in place all you do have to do is log in and you have the same level page as everyone else you have your name there you can see what's going on every single day with everyone else so societies whether if they do want to stay by themselves then we will do our best to work with them as well as that Freshers Day is down on Pat's as well as it is in DCU so societies will have the opportunity to go both to DCU and same Pat's so that they can share their message to both students. Here a question here and a question here and then no more questions. I've been involved in society life for the past two years I feel that the society officer is a beneficial to chair people to committees and I don't particularly see the point we went to broaden a trip and we got little support from society's officers over the past two years what are you going to do to help the societies especially the small ones because they need it and I don't think that this role is helping them at all. So what are you going to do to justify the role especially with supporting smaller societies? I don't agree that that's just for smaller society that's for larger societies as well I've been in those event page groups where it's just event managers chairperson I was a chairperson as well before I do realize over about two years ago when Lindsay Butler was the person she did put an event planner scheme in place so that events didn't clash with each other but I was the same we've been abroad twice bringing on European mystery tours and there was no bit of advice there was no one telling us keeping in contact with us when these opportunities came in place so what am I going to do that's different to last year I'm going to create a form of such but be interactive with it don't just create just to say that you've made it actually be in contact with every single chairperson event manager PRO so that I know what's going on as well as that something people do put online we can manage what's that being happened it's being screened I'm not just doing this to say that I'm a society officer I want to actually do something about it okay so to answer your question what am I going to do that's different to last year I'm actually going to interact with you and we're going to make sure that I have fulfilled what it says that my role is sent out to be I actually have this on my manifesto I want to improve the link between the society's officer and the society I want to be a point of contact with the societies but they have problems they need any issues at all they can come to me they I'll address the issue and I will find the solution to it I want to make it more like the faculty rep and class rep system where they have meetings once or twice a semester to address any issues the class reps and the class are having I feel it's going to be so much more effective rather than just having Facebook pages where the society officer is there but not doing anything we'll be out talking to the chairpersons and the societies and engaging with them to find the solutions to the problems they're having so I will be there for anyone if they need me next year if elected the only struggle with it is the multimedia people our PRO has been great this year in trying to get everything that she could do but I just wondered what would you have to to kind of help society so you don't have that kind of multimedia background to come to their events so how are you going to support societies that don't have necessarily the capacity in some areas such as multimedia yet as a fair point I'm a science student myself and I won't have a clue how to do any PRO stuff but I think the MPS and all the societies from all the multimedia people and journalism they do know how and they were more than happy to help you if you approach them so I will be there and I can give you the information on where to get by these people that will help you and I have no problem with doing this I feel like that is a very fair point and I'll do my best to sort that again to answer that question there are like DCU TV pages and sometimes you just get blue ticked and no one replies to you and I know that can be kind of shit to say such so what sorry sorry bad language my fault and so other than that as well what we can do is and I implemented last year when I was chairperson for my committee we actually got a graphic designer position on the committee we branched out to different societies to see about three people applying for it so there are people out there that actually want these positions it's how we're going to advertise that to each society so we can remind people we can constantly put updates as well as that we can put a leadership part and like a part as such like we have event parts we've got treasury parts we've got secondary parts let's make a graphic design one because I know a lot of people find that even interesting and not just opening up to committee members opening up to whole students across all faculties because not everyone gets a committee position but everyone might be interested in further designing something as such like that because it is an interesting topic so positions to reflect the incorporation well yeah as most societies in DCU last year they brought in a patch I think we should most people have said as well abolished that position have across the department position for each person for each society so it's entirely can be up to the society as well if they want to have someone solely on that campus at all times so we can leave that up for them but across all four campuses it is going to be difficult it's not going to be easy it's like DIT their societies don't get the range that they should be getting and they always say DCU community life is so much better because we were solely based on campus so we can use from their faults in the past and build on how we can make our our community that bit better by using all four campuses there's so many there's over 60 societies out there so there's no reason why we should learn from the past from other universities and build on and make that community there that is in parts that isn't matter day that will be in all hollows and as you can see in DCU there is a community spirit here so I will work my best to keep that community open yeah the committee structures they'll all be a chair by chair at the general ones but then as I said earlier my manifesto I want to introduce a multi-campus rep to ensure that the representation across all campuses this impasse rep it's not I don't think it's right because we're all DCU students and I think the multi-campus rep are much more effective and the representation would be fair across all the campuses all four of them and yeah I think they should stay the same but in terms of multi-campus rep is definitely an ideal situation for the treasurer position with the accounts in that to invest so what do you propose to do to help people that come in and take over committee positions half each year with listener nor trainer so what do you propose to do to help people that come in half each year and help them get experience you will help them do their job so the question is what are you going to do to support committee members who have to take over new roles within the academic year without any training and so yeah at the beginning of semester one there is the pod leadership and what we call them workshops and yeah they're great at the start of the semester but they should be those resources should be there throughout the year rather than just the start of the semester because there is the chopping change of society sometimes people drop out and people come in so the resources should be there for people to learn their new roles they're into but and so I would work with the clubs and stocks offices to try and find a way of having these resources constantly there for people to learn so yeah to answer your question as well is that one thing if you do read my manifesto is that I want to increase the number of mental information sessions throughout the year and if you have ever attended some of them before they can be long they can be boring they can get people who are from businesses that were in a chairperson society maybe 10 years ago what I want to introduce next year that I have said in my manifesto is that get someone who's a treasurer from a society last year tell them about real-life experience how they went to do their grant app how they went about sourcing finances so throughout the year we will increase the number of mental information sessions and workshops and have real-life experience people who have worked with societies of DC who come in and tell you about their experiences so that they make the path a lot easier for you right guys as I said I've been in DC since 2012 I've had positions from first year rep to peer out to event manager to finally being a chairperson last year I actually was honored to win the individual contribution to the society life award that doesn't go unrecognized that's how much effort I put into society where it's quite hard for someone traveling in commuting every single day to get involved but I've taken that extra step and that's how much drive I have for this position so what I really want to say to you guys is that I really want this position DC is giving me so much opportunities I think it's finally my time to give something back to them what I'm going to do different to previous society officers is I'm not just going to say put this on my CV I'm a society officer take that off that's that done now I'm actually going to go out and do something about it from working on committees I've seen what kind of platform there is for a society officer to do and I feel like DCU and the fact that it's that bit bigger next year has lacked that kind of experience I really want this position my name's Luke I really consider me for your number one vote thank you. I was chairperson of Khan Society this year last year I was in the Gram Society in January I went to the doors of Lovegate I've been involved with so many different societies I know how society's work I've been a committee member and an ordinary member of societies and a wide range of them I understand that all sides are different and that they need different needs and have different needs and if I will I look at address all of these I will not just focus on the main ones the big big name societies I will address all the small societies as well equally and I've been a class rep twice I understand it as students union work I know what I could do with the role and my aims are simple and clear they're not big and out there I know what won't get done I know I can achieve them and so please consider me for your support and just eyes off sir my name's Cal and commons I vote for me because y'all have socks in common don't cross the street Kevin's going to be in the museum just a little bit more you're just she is listening I don't know if she has the text what's the need is if you got the veil again let me look at you both you're so cute every time oh okay girl Margaret if you're staying please stay and sit down if you're leaving I'm going to use the extent of my Irish in like the negative two minutes welcome to the final part-time officer today as I said all these hustings are happening again on Monday it's a path so if you think of more questions you've got lots of ways to contact them or you can grill them again on Monday but up next for Irish language officer we have Coyt, Christina and Barra unfortunately Barra is out of the country so he is sent a representative to make a presentation for him but they won't be answering questions but he's contactable I assume on social media and everything if you do have questions for him so we're going to start with three minute introductions each candidate and starting with Coyt it's Misha Coyt and Cala Coyt I was told Misha and Barra so hi guys I'm Coyt and I'm a second year science journalist and I really want to be your Irish language officer so I'll just start with kind of my manifesto based around one main aim that I have and that aim is to incorporate the Irish language into every single part of the student union so everybody that we have in the student union I want to work with them so all of our faculty reps, all of our vice presidents and the president I want to work with them and I want to incorporate the Irish language into everything so I want to work with everyone on them so I know that for example faculties that wouldn't have any Irish in them so it would be outside the faculty of humanities it can be hard sometimes to promote the Irish language I would say so I want to promote the club Cora I'm not sure if you're aware but the common Cora Cora that we have every single week and I want to make sure that that's tied in with the SU because we've never had that chance before so if we have it like that then we'll have it more open we'll have it available for more people and if you want to use your Irish then you're going to be able to come and use it just for the craft there's no pressure, it's not forced because I know that we all have this idea of it being forced on us from secondary school and obsessive grammar and all that and I want to normalise the language and that's really something that's important to me as well as that I want to work closely with the Wealth Friendly Quality Officer towards the Choc Miguel that we're going to have now we already have one set up in past campus which we can really use to our advantage because there's already events going on even there's a Toronto gesture that's fantastic there's always events going on and we can base ourselves on them so being ambassadors for the language that's what people in this combination will be like as well as that a big point for me is you know what you're saying, if you're going to a different country you want to know about the language you want to know about the culture and you want to know if they dance so I think if Erasmus students come to Ireland I'd like to work with the international offices towards talking to the international students and the Erasmus students so that we can tell them how they're going to learn the Irish language if they want to and it's not something that I'm going to force again but just to show that it's ready if they want to learn the Irish dance from dance society and that's like if you're not an ongoing person or anything like that then it can be hard to figure out how to do that straight away so I'd like to work with first year as well I know that we have clubs and stocks weeks straight away whenever we come on campus after orientation week but we're a bilingual campus and we really need to be proud of this so we really need to push this and if we have the officer speaking to the first year as soon as they come in then we'll be able to push this and I think it's really important for us I hear this, I'm a student teacher and I go through all of this obviously because I'm wonderful I disagree completely with that but I understand that people do not have the same passion that I have for Irish I want to give everyone the chance as awful of a player that I want to give everyone the chance to speak whatever Irish they have no matter how fluent they are I want to organise events such as Taylor's Pay free coffee mornings Kaylee's on Gaelian blind dates, speed dating all those types of events where people can just come and use whatever cup of fuck that they have I also believe that Irish is a gift and that everyone should be rewarded for making that extra effort for speaking their own language I want to organise a whale quarter where once you prove to us that everyone can and are making that extra effort to speak Irish daily you'll be given the whale quarter and then be able to get discounts in all the different shops and restaurants around campus for speaking Irish I also, just like Cotch I want to organise a chocolate burger on the Glassnevan campus I'm currently in the chocolate burger at the moment and it's such an amazing base for the Irish language movement I also believe that Irish is really important in DCU every single day I work really closely with all the different clubs and shops to organise different events that are bilingual and where everyone can just throw in a few words of Irish or just a few words of English events such as blind dates we had on the Demand past this year in cooperation with the DRAMSOC that was really successful Kaylee's with the DANSOC and we're good 24 for St. Vincent de Paul I also want to organise a show and record with our Irish hang-out zone on the Glassnevan campus we have one currently in Pat's and it's a great place for people just to get together and chat away to themselves and there's free tea and coffee there too I also organise keratin at our workshops on the Irish culture you know, channels, philly-up twitches, poetry, drama anything like that maybe gets you the actors in from Ross the ring just to spread the language around and I also understand that it's not just all about the practice where I've got the Gallagher and the students union that there are academic issues there to do with Irish and I will work very closely with Ryan and Gallagher to solve these, one of those issues would be the day of the oral Irish examination for Beds but there's so many, just like the movement of the Irish Department too that I'll have us campus there's so many there that we're at this room for development my name is Christina Loughlin I'm here for a TCU, Irish language officer we all have to keep this up good and let's use them I'm Lanky Heron Boyd from Johnny Call and this is his speech So GEE McCordia is the Michelle Barrow Scallon I'm a joint honours Irish and French student this year, I'm running for the position of If you got together As some of you know, I'm doing a RASM at the minute in France this year, so that's why you won't see me on campus this week and haven't seen me all year but as you'll see I'm definitely the best person for this job and at the minute I step back on Irish soil I'll be back, right back giving all my energy to Irish on campus I haven't forgotten my passion for Irish and seeing how much work that has been done this year following on from the foundations laid over the past two years has made me even more excited to come back and get right back into it When I started in DCU in September 2013 Irish was at an all time low point The Como Gala was almost nonexistent There seemed to be no outlets to speak Irish for students and it was disappointing So I got onto the Como Gala Facebook page and offered to give a few Irish classes and then from then on, I was right in the thick of it By the end of the year I was Cahirla, or chairperson of the Como Gala and throughout my second year I, with the help of a great committee brought the Como Gala from strength to strength and we ended up winning most approved society on campus a Gloria Deyles award for this fair, Fwee Gaughey Bob or Best Como Gala under 200 members It didn't stop there I was also elected class rep councillor for Iffa Gaughey Gaughey last year and with this role I campaigned for Irish language issues including a motion for the University and to employ an Iffa Gaughey Gaughey and to set aside apartments for a scheme ammonia or Irish language combination scheme I firmly believe that my campaigning and that of my colleagues as well was a driving force behind the implementation of both of those motions As mean I have both on campus Since the University's Iffa Gaughey Gaughey was employed I worked closely with her to lobby for more representation for Irish on campus and to organise campaigns on events When writing my manifesto I tried to keep it realistic and simple The three main points are as follows Firstly, I want to have a show for the Gaughey Gaughey on DCU campus This is something that already exists on the same paths campus and most other Irish universities I think it will be well as a hope or focal point for the Irish language As the new hope is currently in development now is the perfect time to campaign for this It will be the perfect spot for the likes of a show for the Gaughey Gaughey and I think we've built enough momentum over the past few years that is a realistic and obtainable goal Secondly, something I've gradually come to realise over the past I've spent campaigning for Irish is that it's really hard almost impossible to justify a passion in someone or to get a whole campus So we have to think about historical and cultural aspects of Irish also So please give me your number one vote with this experience behind me and years worth of only speaking Irish every couple of weeks because in France I have a lot to give when I come back to DCU I've learnt so much during my time abroad and I know what needs to be done on campus to ensure the coming years and the status of Irish can keep going from strength to strength as it has since 2013 Light of recent events the movement of Winder How will you ensure a strong presence of Gaughey Gaughey will persist on the glass level of campus? In the light of recent events so the movement of Winder How will you ensure a strong presence of Gaughey Gaughey will persist on the glass level of campus? I'm very experienced in the Cromwell I was part of the Cromwell this year and I was on the committee of it so I'm well used to promoting Irish and the chance to promote it on the glass level campus as well One thing I would definitely do like I said in my manifesto I want to have activities not just during shopping work I want activities every single week to do it out to give everyone a chance to speak their Irish every single day and this is how I feel that I would be able to promote Irish on the glass level campus If people are just here and the people who have been thrown around on the case they're going to pay attention to that so why are those people speaking Irish and that's how you will be the attention and momentum to keep Irish as a mean and integral part of student life here in glass level That's actually something that really affects me because I'm under the School of Funder Actually the other night we brought a motion to Classroom Council to try and stop this from happening so we mandated the Students' Union to try and find another solution because we really don't want to be pushed off campus and we really want to prevent that from happening and we are going to lose our staff definitely but we might lose our students and it's the students we're fighting for right now Now it is fair enough to say that if we lose our staff it might bring down a bit the ethos of Irish but it won't bring down at all it's just the researchers, it's just the lecturers that are in there, we still have the students that are going to be mainly based up here and that's like we need to just spread the Irish there and all of our Gwellamore stuff is up here anyway so if we do lose our staff off campus to all of us then we'll still have our Gwellamore going around the students That's a really good question I think the big thing with Irish is that we're not saying that it's a better language we're not saying that we prefer it we just want the same words as people who speak English who speak Polish and any other language have that's all we want because our own constitution is like the first language is Irish like for it we should have the right to have everything that is available through English through Irish we're not asking for any more than English we're just asking for the same rights I don't think it's much to ask it's not demeaning any other language it's not making anybody else a minority keeping our own language and using our rights In that context we don't want to take over TCU and campus and make it a complete Irish campus we just want Irish to be there in equal parts to English and the quality of their languages This year we campaigned for the and for the housing What are you planning on doing what are you passionate about what is the next step with the Irish language on TCU campus what's next step for Irish language what are you planning on doing I've definitely made some amazing achievements over the past few years with regards to the Irish language I think based on TCU I think the best thing for us to do is to off the ante with all the different events we have that we don't Irish events tend to be concentrated around Chathlegway but I don't want them like we should go all out for Chathlegway but I don't want them just to be there and then for everyone to forget about Irish straight after those two weeks so I think we should be focusing on putting more regular events on and to be giving the student support as well academically for Irish and Chathlegway and other people will definitely help those aims and then naturally I think it is important to promote the Irish language as a whole we see there are several campaigns ongoing at the moment to do with Irish for example the Beds currently paying €750 to go to the Gads and purchase and we did have a massive campaign but that was unsuccessful so as often as possible the part of my manifesto is to start a new, stronger campaign against those type of things where people aren't upon it for trying to learn the language Well I know that it has taken a lot to campaign for the Chathlegway and the Schengen Kulha and the Gugnugwele and I think what we need to do here is spread the awareness of the language we need to make it like a solid grammar because we've never had a Gugnugwele on our campus before and I think it's really important that we make a solid grammar especially in semester one and then we can go up from there so then we can make sure that there's going to be more meetings available through Irish so even like having different things like working with students and we have to really ensure it but it's just a matter of really getting the foundation right right now I think because we haven't up until now and I don't want to get ahead of ourselves too early because if we kind of aim too high right now then we could just fall because we really need a good foundation because Gugnugwele is the first time on this campus I would just say to someone it doesn't think it's like why should they care So we understand your personal motivations from your manifesto but how would you convince others to care first is as I said earlier it's not about forcing anyone you're not going to force anyone to add anything and that's a problem that we have in our education system as it is but what I'd like to do is just make people more comfortable with it and normalise it just make it a regular thing that we have every day not for it to be something that I don't like or just because they see a word there just for it to be something that they don't even notice that it's just always there in the back of your mind something that's just constantly influenced on us it's not about forcing people to like it it's just about having the opportunities there if they want to learn it they can we're not always going to force anyone but we do need to raise the awareness of it push it but just have more more stuff going on that everyone can get access to I would say to those people is that I just spent two weeks up and running all in the garden and it is amazing for someone who's already passionate about it to see how much it opened my eyes to the richness of the language and how much it links us to our culture and to the past and from that once we learn from the past we'll be able to move on into the future with our language so in that way that's one reason why I think the Irish language is important but there are so many other reasons academically learning an extra language I'm not going to remark on figures now but academically learning an extra language we'll learn maths and other languages and everything like that and people do perform academically better so those are like the basic reasons we would never ever try and force someone to speak Irish if they didn't want to oh did I? the last thing there was what support would give to people where there isn't enough support there for people who are doing their courses through Irish so Kinshah and my daughter Rahmej and Valette on the Hacking Shot of Christusburg with her permission and Kinshah and Kinshah and Kinshah and Kinshah and Kinshah it's not fair at all that people should be suffering because they want to make that extra effort to speak Irish and I would definitely go in contact with all the Irish departments across all the campuses to make sure that Irish is supported and that all those templates that we have to support is there because it is definitely an issue that people have and it's definitely not fair at all so I would be in contact with lecturers making sure they put all the things on there that are both in Irish and in English and that I would make that closer yeah, I'm taking on a question so how does it work? how does it work? how does it work? how does it work? how does it work? how does it work? how does it work? how does it work? how does it work? if you don't know how QJ doesn't have it it calls that as QJ in order to jakiś those Suturic Crescent It adds a bit of that气 so to be clear that you have to go with and find it yourself because like they do like obviously there are organizations that want to give it to us and just eat your orange just working with them right now and it's really important that for the opportunities that we're given some opportunities as well and that these employers are like they're there and all of the all the courses that we have because it will of course nurture. What are you going to do to encourage non-Iowa speakers and maybe intimidated by the event or places like the show more of the fight? Yeah well you're not going to force people to speak it as I said but the thing is it's just having the opportunities there so we want our club core that we're going to have like I do want to make sure that's an SU event as well and that's readily available and it will be in the show more hard drive when we get it but at the same time we had things like during Shackleville again on this campus we had like things like Ranny may go on so there were people there that had very little Irish but at the same time we had a good turnout and stuff because people knew their numbers and just brought it back and it was just so nice to have something like that so it's just a matter of like improving awareness of them like just having like people who don't have Irish like people like you just get the chance to speak it if they want to. It's not a case of like I don't need to have people like that come good or anybody good to do that before it's just that we have the chance and then when we have the chance to actually run more events like this. And that they can be very intimidating and bright but as of the way I get that's what I want to focus on, I want to focus on the fact that we will be completely open and welcoming to everyone. Whatever level of virus there are that we'll be able to help them and bring them on and if they want to see where they're at that's grand and they just want to save you a question, grow them up but that's fine. And that's why I have plans in my manifesto, events like tea, other spay, coffee mornings, blind dates, those are things where you can just like throw in a few words. They're the basis of the language that everyone will be able to use so then people coming together is usually just to bond over the Irish language. And for student teachers going into placement and maybe have issues with even for our lesson plan templates they didn't have them through Irish, they didn't have the support there and we had to get on to the lectures and make sure they put them there. That is one of the things that I'll be working very closely behind the wheel to make sure that those things are available to every single student that we don't have to go out and ask for them as well. There are different resources even like the curriculum to get them to Irish so there aren't that many in the libraries at the moment and they go straight away. So I'd want the campaign for there to be more curriculums to be put there too much but that's where you get the terminology so you're more competent when you go in front of the class. And also I would just resources in general you know with different books and toys a few weeks ago we had an Irish assignment all the books were gone like that and everyone else was stuck. So we need to have more resources for Irish and that's what I would be working to do as a for the better. This isn't a problem that I actually faced myself but it is something I was made aware of yesterday when I went down to Path to Campus. I think that as you said lesson plans should be available. I know I work for the MPS, the Media Production Society and we have resources part of our page so I'd like something like that on the SU website where we have resources for the T2 placement page. And that would be really good because we'd be able to put obviously the lesson templates of Moscow again and things like that. But as well as that I'd like to make sure that teachers are aware of all the first Noguelga packs they can get. Do you know where they can get like the reward charts and the post-its and everything that's going to help them teaching it. It's going to be another thing that's going to help them through the teaching practice and the teaching placement. And Noguelga and First Noguelga are more than happy to give out these things. I'll just make sure that they are on campus and that they're ready to be given out and they're kept up in the SU. So they're ready, handy, it's not a case of seeing it about two weeks before it. Now I was really really nervous coming up as I was shaking so I hope you bear with me for that. But I'm so passionate about Irish and I've done everything I could possibly do for the Irish language. I try to incorporate it into everything like that's what I do best. I incorporate the Irish language into everyday things. I've been doing it since I was two years old and I've been trying to speak Irish and make people speak Irish around me since I was eight. So I really really hope that you vote for me because I have so much ideas and I'd be more than happy to hear what other people have to say. I'm more than happy to help be in any way I can because I really love the way I get and I really want to promote it. Like I said, I don't, I understand if you don't like Irish if you're not as passionate about it as me. I want to promote Irish in the college for people who are both who are fluent and who are fluent. I want to organise events such as a Turkish play, a coffee morning, blind dates, Kaili's, Grave and Professor Cahar. I want to organise workshops, a chocolate bag and an Irish higher zone here on DCU campus. I want to help students with academic issues they have to do with Irish. And you can find my manifesto on my Facebook page. So yeah, Christine is on this Amazon. I'm going for DCU Irish Damage Officer. Please give me your number one. We all have to cook the food though. So once again, it's mission of Barro Scalon. So it's hard for me to sell them here as Barro when I'm actually in France. So get on to Barro, my first Facebook page, vote number one Barro for Scalon. Follow my snapshot story that I'm doing every day in France right now to get a look at how this role was actually tailored to fit me. On a broader note, if elected, I want to create more debt and allow opportunities for people to speak Irish whenever they can. Be it absolute beginners or fluent. It's something that needs to be incorporated to everyday activities. So it's sports, free Irish class, co-corps or even using your cup of cocoa inspire. So please give me your number one vote. Barro Scalon for Isiga Ligelga. Thank you very much. Big round of applause for everybody. We'll get there. We have four positions left to, I don't know what the active verb is, the host. The order of them is VP education and placement, then VP welfare and equality, then VP engagement and development, and finally VP academic affairs. We're going to try and keep each one to 20 minutes. So if you're not education and placement, you could probably disappear for a little while. And so, and we're going to do short, like we did with presidents, it's going to be shorter introductions. And we might scrap the summations as well, just so some of us can go back to work. Starting off with VP education is Manus and Steven with us. If you're going to stay for this, come in and sit down. And you know what? Everyone's going to move forward three rows, because you're very far away and there's loads of empty seats. So if you're in, if you're further back than Ayoub, Ayoub, I'm so sorry, Ayoub, you need to come forward. Come on. Getting up and stretching as well will be good for you, for those of you who've been here for a while. There's loads of seats. There's loads of places for you. Okay, we've got some protesters in the back. That's okay. It's okay, you don't have to do all I tell you. Okay, thanks for that. It's just nice to have a few not empty seats right in front of them when they're speaking. Okay, so now we're on to VP education and placement. If you have any questions to submit, get them over to Aaron as soon as possible, because as soon as the candidates stop introducing themselves, I will not accept any more questions. So you're going to have two minutes to introduce yourself. I will give you a warning when you've 30 seconds left. And we're going to go in reverse order to the way we did last time, so we're starting off with Stephen. Hi everyone, my name is Stephen Rickson and I'm running for Vice President of Education and Placement, because I think after four years of doing a course that has placement, lectures, assignments, exams, and stuff that I'm really passionate about, I think that I could bring a lot to the role. As well, I've been involved in societies here in DCU since being in first year, and I'm currently the Society's Officer on the St Patrick's Student Union, so it would be an absolute dream to be a part of the SU when they finally come together. As well, I know it is based on St Patrick's campus, but I would try to work as much as I can with every faculty, because DCU does actually have 70% of courses going on placement. So one of the big issues I'd like to work with on the Glass 7 campus are students going on intra. The allocation process where students have to accept the first place offered to them should be reviewed, as well as that more information provided on intra prior to the year of placement, as well as one-to-one sessions to support students. As well as this then, the actual intro portion was brought to my attention, and I think that students should be able to show their personality in uploading their CV, and students studying through Irish should be able to actually upload their CV as Quailga. Feedback then on all assignments is a big thing I want to get in education-wise. It is very important if concise feedback is given to students, they know where they went right, where they went wrong, and how exactly they can improve in future years. I want to campaign for a reading week in all courses, especially nursing, science, engineering, even if I could secure a mini reading week whereby the students got three days off, or just a week with no labs, it would be of benefit to them, and they could cut up on all their extra work. I do want to work closely to promote the essay writing skills workshops and referencing workshops. Students often waste a lot of time not knowing how to reference properly, instead of focusing on the content itself, and this is something I do want to look into. So again, please, over the next week, consider me Stephen Rickson, Votol Ricksy. This is Manus with Auckland, I'm from Mayo, and I'm currently studying primary school teaching in St Pat's. I believe it's very important to whoever gets this job that they're very passionate about it, how do I prove to you they're not passionate? I have two reasons, number one, I had to skip my Gailta placement, I deferred it until July or June, and I'm going to have to complete that without everyone in my year, and maybe possibly with hibernia students. If that doesn't show dedication, I don't know what does. On top of that, I come from an educational background, my parents are both teachers, my sister's a teacher, and I've heard enough dinner conversations over the past few years to put the changes that I've heard and get a chance to implement them. As well as that, over the past few years, I've realised that placement is very stressful on people, as I'm sure you can all relate to it. I had a video made on that to show people where they can go to talk about their problems. As well as that, I'd like to make sure that the services provided for students on placement, for their mental wellbeing, are adequate. I can't say that, sorry, I'd like to build a symbiotic relationship between the colleges. As I said before, building a working community is very difficult. I'd love to have surveys of every single placement. As I mentioned before, I did my own survey, and it immediately told us what needed to be ironed out for the following year. If you don't survey a placement, the same problems are going to keep happening every single year. How about we survey every single placement, in DCU, PATs, and in all campuses. As well as that, I would love to make sure that students, such as nurses, or business students, or anyone who's gone on placement, are integrated in college life while they're gone. I myself had no idea what was going on in PATs in the first semester. Maybe even a couple of emails just to fill them in. Online ticket sales for nurses so that they can buy their tickets online when they're on placement. Look, I've ran for PATs for Student Union for two years. I've made promises, I've followed through with them. If you vote for me, please place your trust in me for one more year. I promise to follow through. I'll be there for you next year in placement. Four minus for eight guys. Okay, I've got some written questions. If you haven't got them to iron at this stage, there's no more written questions coming through, and I'm only going to take two or three from the floor. What will you do for Erasmus students, both heading off to different countries and coming from different countries to DCU? I suppose this is a similar question to the question I was asked last year with regard to PMEs. There's going to be thousands of people contact us. A lot of people coming down and changing places and making sure that they're integrated and engaged is obviously very important. With regard to Erasmus, we have an Erasmus building. They're on St. Pat's for the last two years. Coming in and out to them just making sure that they're okay. As with regard, as I mentioned to the PMEs, there's similarities there because if they have an interest, you approach that interest. You say, hey, what's your interest? What are you interested in? And you use that interest to gather their Erasmus people together, maybe even some clubs and societies. They might be interested in the clubs and societies. If I'm not there to tell them that, who is going to be there? As well as that, I suppose, building a community and making sure they don't feel isolated as a group is very important as well. So making sure they're integrated in all events and they're not maybe labelled like some people might think that they will be. Well, first and foremost, I just want to make sure that the support services are made aware too. Erasmus students become obviously, whether they're in going or outgoing, they are away from home and it can be a very lonely time. But also that they feel supported by the college so that they're kept in the loop, in the know about what's going on, so that they do still feel a part of the college community. This year, as society's officer, I sent out a weekly email every week informing simpats of what events are taking place within clubs and sucks and I only found out about three weeks in that Erasmus students weren't actually getting this email because they weren't a part of the college mailing list. So I'd want to ensure that all Erasmus students are made a part of the college emailing list or there's a separate one made and that they're still sent on forward into them. So that's it. Okay, next question. Currently only interned nurses get paid for placement. Other years get travel allowance but only from DCU to partner hospitals. What will you do about this? Well, one of the things in my manifesto is financial support and I know the travel expenses are only looked into from DCU to placement. So a big thing is making sure that the college perhaps takes in your own accommodation where you live when actually placing you and then so they could place you hopefully closer to where you live or in addition to this look into getting the college to actually focus where you live, where you're going, not just travel expenses from DCU to the hospital where you're going to. I suppose as almost working professionals it's a bit silly that we don't get paid for placement. Placement actually decreases your bank funds instead of increasing them as I'm sure you're all aware via resources, finance, transport that you pay to do it. I suppose getting paid for it is no easy change. I won't be making any empty promises up here saying I'm going to do this, I'm going to do that but I've had two years experience behind me. I know change is not easy but put me behind it I believe with enough travel force anything is possible. Any questions from the audience? Brand new full-time paid position. Any questions from the audience? Obviously really complicated system and saying you're going to do it is one thing but I've either of you talked to Vanessa Wade or anyone in the inter-office and I already talked to them and discussed it at this point. Excellent. So the interest system is quite complicated. You're both suggesting reforms. Who have you talked to about your ideas on fixing the system? Look, when I approached all the DCU students as a past student over the past few weeks I mean the first thing I heard was Intra. The second I said was the management immediately facial expressions changed and they were getting on to me about issues they have about Intra. Look, I'm not saying to you that I can stand up here I will do this, I will do that I've never said the word will. I've said with enough driving force behind it I will be able to push for these changes and if elected next week I will start implementing and tackling these because I believe if I start next September absolutely nothing will be done. I've spoken to Beir Abbas about it got her opinions on it and maybe over 100 other people's opinions and what they would like implemented. Again I repeat I'm not saying that I'll be able to get all those stuff done I'm saying that I will start next week and do my absolute best. Thank you. I haven't actually spoken to Vanessa in the Intra office but I have spoken with one of the business lecturers about that I can't remember now they were saying that to review the allocation process system even to look into a swap system whereby if you know somebody who would like the position that you've got and then you're willing to change that you can actually swap because that wouldn't cause too much hassle for the Intra staff and the department themselves and you're still happier with the different different place that you're getting. Any other questions or I'll start making them up? Quite. How do you plan on incorporating the Irish language into your role? Stephen. This is actually also in my manifesto I want to promote the Rangunagailga in Comunagaila for students who are applying to postgraduate courses whereby the interview process is through Irish or for students who are studying Irish and just need actual academic support because it's often just assumed that when you're doing primary teaching or another course that you're fluent in Irish and often that isn't the case and as well just to promote the Rangunagaila for people who simply want to learn the language. In addition to that then I also have a manifesto to make all the resources available for students who are placed in Gwail Skolina because currently you have to reflect off Skolina if you are in a Gail Skolina but yet all the templates are in English so really it makes no sense so that's how it's done. I'm here on cave land on course at Rangunagaila. I did the first year of my course to Irish and chose to do it I was pretty scared the first time I put myself forward to do it came into a class with 40 students maybe 39 of those students were from Donegal perfect Irish couldn't understand the word they were saying and look I absolutely love the Irish language I've been on the student union for the past two years I've seen the absolute incredible work they've put in in Comunagaila in St Pat's we're clothing yearly our Irish officer Aaron Nicarul who's been in grey work this year and I've already been in touch with them as to how we're going to promote it of course in my category to try and promote Irish as the educational and national officer how would I do it? First of all in Down in St Pat's we have this Chomar card room where you get free tea and coffee if you speak Irish it's an excellent idea but for the past 50 years a lot of students are just coming in there and maybe using it for its resources rather than the purpose that it was put into place for as a result I would like to change and reform the Comunagaila in St Pat's and make sure that between the two campuses Comunagaila does not get lost thanks very much Noa, Keshav we're going to address intra students or students being locked out of intra if they fail their summer exams and as this might be a huge amount of work how are you going to find them? I apologize so I'm from a university that wasn't semesterised so they're locked out of the portal if they don't pass Christmas exams what are you going to do to help them find placements in more than a two week time and as this is a big part of work how are you going to balance it with the other duties of the role and we're starting with Manus Good question first of all my office hours wouldn't determine when I begin and finish work my door will metaphorically speaking always be open if you knew me from St Pat's over the past two years you'd know that my door as entertainment officer and daytime activities officer I was always helping other people branching beyond what I needed to do just because I love helping students if you tell me that you're going to email me next year and I see the email although maybe I might have a hundred of you there's no way I'm going to ignore that email after me send an opinion in front of you all and say that I'll be there for you next year I promise that if I get an email no matter when it is if anyone gets on to me I'll make it my priority there's nothing else I can say here right now then it's going to be my business I'll do my absolute best here yeah similarly I have about supporting students who have to repeat and obviously that is a big issue I don't exactly know why they have to be locked out of the portal so I'd try first of all talk with the department staff and see is there any way around that and secondly when the whole the inter-portal system to have as many jobs as possible actually put up from the get-go as opposed to you kind of because as it is people might wait two weeks not knowing whether to apply for a job or not and then so if they're released at the beginning or at least if you know that they're coming up you can wait kind of in confidence rather than waiting around so I try to support them as much as I could with the... Any more questions? We're going to go to... So the question is lots of students on placement don't get paid so some employers who take students on placement don't pay them what are you going to do to address this as students can't actually survive without money? Well obviously I can't go to the employers themselves to do anything about it but I could look into the college trying to support the students who aren't going to be paid on their placement because it is similar to science students who have intra in their third year some will get paid some won't get paid and the ones that don't get paid perhaps we can look into just simple things just travel expenses or even you know help towards accommodation anything like that I don't know exactly what I could do about it but it would be something I could look into and try my best for those students Look as I said I know I keep repeating that change doesn't come easy but me alone up there is I'm not going to be able to do loads and loads on my own so I am going to you're calling me out now I'm going to call you back out next year for your help with the issues that you've raised for me don't leave me here on my own next year I'm going to be calling back out from the students and a survey I just did last semester I am meeting with the placement head in St. Pat's at 1pm because he loved the results and he believed that it immediately surfaced any problems with it Look I would love your help next year with these issues again I need every student to back up because if you have 15,000 students pushing you have a chance of getting it if you have just me nagging at the top people without you I need you together with me and together we will get stuff done I promise Nice and loud now You're being bullied on placement it's 4pm on a Friday afternoon you've been contacted by a student on placement who is being bullied what's your first course of action or your first reaction I suppose as a teacher I should know a small bit about bullying in the classroom Look first of all I have to step back from it I have to completely make sure that I'm not attached to it because if I am I'm absolutely no use to that student I have to immediately take protocols and contact the necessary people above me to let this this is a big issue it's not something that I'm just going to maybe reply the next day about it's something I need to deal with immediately and it's also something I'd have to get in touch with the head office head placement office and bring them involved with the two I'm going to protect the student the particular student around me as much as I possibly can with regard to confidentiality and how it pans out to the placement you really don't want any more negative things to happen to that student and ideally we would intervene and make it work rather than taking a student having to put them under pressure and moving them again With that student in particular try to meet up with them as soon as possible hear the full story and then talk to whoever is involved with the situation to find it out but I do know from actually talking with nurses that bullying in the workplace is one of the bigger issues whether kind of more senior nurses in the workplace or kind of final year students who are obviously very stressed and sometimes might take it out on the younger students so I think to build or promote awareness of this issue and kind of campaign against bullying in the workplace in general for all these students who are going on placement More question if there is one Liv different types of subjects right here we don't have to streamline but we actually have the opportunity What can you do for people on the interest system who are not getting placement offers for things directly relevant to their course? Again I don't know exactly so basically just in my course as a whole we weren't just streamlined to form all types of jobs but we're cross-bordered with very different types of subjects I don't exactly know if there is anything that can be done but I would obviously look into it to make sure that something perhaps could be done and the big thing I did say that I want to do an intra is the fix and the inter-portal the whole layout of it that first of all that you don't have to click into everyone to see when the date for you need to apply you should kind of see the date there and then that wastes hours of people's time and then just the specific ones for computing I suppose if there's one thing I've learned from the last two weeks is that intra is definitely everyone's best friend up in DCU look what can I do for you with regard to that I suppose your course you're being streamlined because you're in computing and engineering and you're being stuck between two faculties as a result and you're not being placed you're being streamlined to computer and engineering placement I suppose as I said seven days from now if elected there's so many problems with intra unless I deal with them next week there's no point in electing me so I promise you I'll deal with them next week I'll approach you I'll ask you the four main problems as well as everyone else I'll write them down because I need to know what the students want there's no point in me going I'll do this with intra I'll do that with intra I need to know what you want with intra and I'll make sure I do my absolute best to do it thanks very much I'm available on every probably social media platform that exists so big little boss for our candidates for education placement up is VP welfare and equality and I have Cody, Shane and Allison if you live around me I can only see Cody and Allison I see two you're going to start with openings and they're going to go in the order of Allison then Shane then Cody you have questions in the corner look for people with purple t-shirts and as soon as they finish speaking I'm not taking any more questions quick as possible so Allison you have two minutes can you hear me is this loud enough can you hear me there can you hear me there good because I don't want this to get lost we also don't have closing so I'm going to open and close in these two minutes my name is Allison I'm a 21 year old journalism student and I've had the best three years of my life in DCU I'm running for the position of welfare and equality not because I'm scared to leave but because I genuinely think that I am the best person for this job I've read the roles of my disabilities and I know that I have the skills to fulfill this role better than anyone else I'm not the best woman for the job I am the only woman for the job my aims and objectives are simple and they're achievable I want to use what I've learned in DCU and bring it to the welfare role accessibility week that's something that it's really close to my heart I've been working with intellectual disabilities my entire time in DCU to your head start mental impairment if you've if you've a physical disability how do you get down the steps in the venue without having to come in the back door how do you get down the steps in CG86 it's simple things like this I want to raise awareness I want to work with Paralympics Island after Paralympics I want them to come in talk with us and do workshops with us mental and physical health every year it's on manifestos of course it's going to be there this year but I want to follow through on the physical side of this mental and physical health on a physical health awareness week we have sexual health we have mental health now let's do it physical and let's not just do boot camps and let's all go play basketball let's do nutrition talks let's educate our students let's put things in place so that we are creating good habits and let's link them okay your mental health is incredibly important and physical health has a really good knock-on effect on that so I want to bring both of those together I want to work with whoever is elected the Irish officer I'm not fluent Irish speaker they are going to have to help me on the economy side of this role and I really am passionate about doing that for them hello coach guys I really want this I've wanted so badly I could cry but I'm not going to please vote Alstonering number one for Welfare and Equality fitness hello Alston that's very good hello everyone my name is Shane Parsons and I'm going to be your Welfare and Equality Officer I'm a Pats student I'm in my third year now I'm doing the BA course which is a fun course great course I've had a great time now in Pats but yeah for the last three years I've spent in Pats with great the community and the spirit down in Pats is brilliant and I love to come up to DCU and incorporate that into Pats to look at my manifesto a few main points one of my main points is the combination the problem over in DCU in Pats is that being one is the combination and one of my solutions to that is an app called Accommodation Clarification basically it's an app where students can log on four-year students and they can offload their housing that they're leaving come to students in the first year, second year or third year and it's also very good for students who are on placement students who are on placement in the first year they can offload or sorry in the first semester they can offload their house to students that are in college for the second semester that were already on place in the first semester and my second point is mental health obviously mental health is such an important issue I'm running for this role and mental health awareness there as well as the mental health and well-being and oh we're alright as well improved welfare weeks to make them bigger and better as well as that looking at sexual health is very important we all know the STIs we all know all that so I'd like to emphasise on sexual consent that's okay to say no Jack Brunton that was a job too as well as that sexual health free from the giveaways and so on my name is Shane Parsons and I hope you can vote for me I love your number one vote so please vote thank you very much for your time hi everyone my name is Cody Byrne I'm a physical psychology student so I currently have three jobs I am the Irish chairperson of the largest student led organization in the world I've experienced death I've experienced homesickness I feel that with this job over and above every other position you need a personality which these two definitely have and I feel like I do as well but you need to come back with personal experience and education and I feel like all those three together make me a very good candidate for the role if not the best male or sorry and female whatever we're all great yeah so with regards to my manifesto it's you get a budget put to you and it needs to be realistic otherwise there's no purpose so essentially I'm going to talk to you about three main points if you go onto my Facebook page you can vote for the others as well at your own time the first one is mental health so currently the counseling services here in DCU they only have enough service time for 80 hours a week and 40 additional students on average are acquiring these services each week and that's becoming the point where it's reaching maximum capacity and we bring in an online peer-to-peer support system where DCU students are trained online active listening then they can so basically students will be using the services they'll be using their student number to log in the counseling services will have access to which students are logging in continuously which they can contact themselves individually and see what the underlying issue is if hopefully and the idea is that the student trained student volunteers will be able to redirect them to the appropriate services that'll save time on the counseling services who are early at maximum capacity secondly for accommodation remove remove the Facebook page put it on a website because it's getting pushed down pushed down pushed down update it current update it every day and have it so that it's like people can see which are available which aren't I just keep people on their tenant rights and what kind of questions they should be asking the landlords and then thirdly workshops CPR and suicide awareness training should be available for all students if they so wish LGBT and cyberbullying for the teacher students incorporation that won't okay sorry I'm going to leave it there I'm Cody this was a very bad speech I'm not a better public speaking I would really appreciate number one vote and if you guys want to check out my really kind of video and my Facebook page that would be great thank you so much okay there's a couple of questions that are kind of along the same line so I'm going to read them out together so the first questions are how do you plan to engage first years with sex education and with UCD and Trinity introducing consent classes for first years what is your opinion on these and how would you introduce them if you agree with them and the first answer is Shane the point is the consent to engage first years in consent actually this year the vice president and president passed a morning record during Shag Week the rundown consent workshop which just introduces consent talks about consent and sort of the students so what I do is I'd I'd emphasise that I promote it to first years and help them and let them go it's in a private it's in a private place so it's in it's very private and very easy to get engagement so I'll probably bring in consent motions okay so the first thing about consent is that it works two ways I feel that men have a at the end of this stick here they get kind of the hard time when they come to this it can work two ways from the get go additionally when you're leaving secondary education a lot of the time people don't get any sexual education I got sexual education when I was in America when I was in the fifth grade that's fourth class for you guys I got none in the rest of my education here in Ireland I didn't even know okay I'm not going to say that so that needs to be brought in because you're going to have all these first years being exposed to these nights out these crazy drink-fueled events and there's pressure to engage in sexual activity they need to know that A consent is a big issue and so is respect and a one-time speech at the beginning of orientation week is simply not enough there needs to be workshops there needs to be a casual conversation about it because currently there's such a stigma regarding sexual health mental health that stigma has been relatively significantly tackled over the last few years sexual health not so much not even a little bit and a lot more work needs to be done especially with content and that is okay to explore your sexuality in a safe way that's not you know okay that's not self-imposing but that's essentially my answer to that the workshops are key okay that's all so in spite of my manifesto for reforming Shag Week I have mentioned that I want consent workshops to be there and I think it is really important for first years that's coming into college as a first year you don't know what's expected of you you don't know what is not expected of you but it's not just first years it comes across the board it's second and third year as well we're all moving at different rates developing at different levels call it what you want but consent workshops have to be there for everyone and I know that in other colleges I'm not sure if it's used for you Trinity that they're trying to make these workshops compulsory for first years and while that's a good idea I don't think that we could do that from the start like I think this is something we're going to be introducing kind of new so you need to get the balance right first you need to find a formula that works and roll it out almost as a pilot scheme and then if that does work replicate it and do it better thank you next question Cody's going to answer first what do you plan to fix the counselling or how do you plan to fix the counselling service in DCU okay so currently there's a myth that the counselling service has a two week waiting list that's not necessarily true it works like an A&E department first come first well not first come first serve it's the most dire cases come first but the problem with that is that if you don't express how much of a situation you're currently in you're going to be pushed on the list and then additionally as I said previously they're at maximum capacity as it already is the online peer to peer support system it's not the be all and end all we have to acknowledge that even myself I'm going to be a psychology graduate eventually I'm still not a qualified counsellor I'm not but peer to peer support systems if you look back in the literature not only does it enhance social inclusion it also works in terms of a problem focused solution which is really key as part of my manifesto is it's going to be cheap all you need to do is train the students develop some sort of online platform it's going to be effective because what happens is people are going to counselling services right now but they might have financial worries so why don't they go to the financial services or if they have like learning disabilities they're still going to counselling services because there's like any help and that's what that's what they associate so this online peer to peer support system will help distract the flow of students attending the counselling services training in students at the start of the year which will help students say if you're struggling in your course if you're taking a drop out if you're just if you're not enjoying yourself if you're not setting them in so I think this mentorship program the students will see these students and the students with the problems of depression and so on can go to the counsellor so they'll speed up the service a lot more so with the counselling service I suppose my job would be to make sure that students are feeling at these forums honestly to like assess how much they need so that they're not lying to themselves and being pushing them to help them and so on so the mentorship problems will be a very good idea so if you're training around 50 students or so they can help by more students as well they can make friendships with themselves and being pushed further down the waiting list and being made wait longer just because they're not being honest with themselves about how their mental health actually is and as part of my manifesto for mental health week I want to implement I think over the last three years the welfare officers and DCU have done an incredible job of raising the issue of mental health of breaking down the stigma and now we need to put in place a story to you saying I have a mental health issue and you don't know how to deal with that because you're not trained so I think it's small things like that with the actual counselling service if they're backed up I don't know what I can do personally to fix that problem the counselling service but all I can do is make sure that the students are putting themselves in the best position to get counselling and have other resources outside of the counselling service to cope with the problems I don't know So this welfare officer will be responsible for the issue of counselling this year not just DCU so that means to look at the position of the old counsellors that means welfare varies from those who are here so how do you manage that how do you ensure you can be based on both of the possible how do you make sure you're going to manage being welfare officer for two campuses and all of the responsibilities that come within that and the first person is Shane Yeah well it's it's actually not just two campuses as well as Matter Day as well as the church department so that's us it's a lot more more characters yeah but yeah it is going to be very tough but I know that this role I wouldn't mind if I did if I was elected I wouldn't mind maybe two days or maybe a day in one place in two days you'd have to be three days in DCU maybe day past day in Matter Day you know just to send yourself around the place because you can't really you can't really solve the problems from here because I know like if I was at home and I think what I think yeah you should be situated down and past more as well as DCU maybe an office time down and past as well as DCU so I think there's two ways to tackle that issue so the first one would be use your faculty reps and so you have to use them these five faculties use them as a focal point to get into each faculty and the second thing I think we need to do as an SU in general is get out of our offices so why not move to the science building for a week what do I need my phone or my laptop do it like that make sure you're on the ground what if I move what if I swap offices with one of this back based on parts for a week and go down there and try and work from there I think if we become more mobile and actually go to our students instead of waiting for them to come up to the SU to us that could really really work and it hasn't been done before and I know that there will be other things about it but I don't see why not why can't I instead of just setting up a table during exam time outside the library why don't I move into the business building for a week and see what business students I can help and that's the way I go about it Yeah, very good point there it should be looked at from two perspectives so the main perspective that people look at when people approach the welfare office right in the SU offices that's a treatment model it's short term it's effective but it doesn't do much in the greater schemes you need to look at a global level so that's where the preventative measures come in like every week people talk about their own personal stories and how they overcame them it tackles the stigma and which means that people will be more willing to talk and then it tackles the solution so it's problem-based a problem-focused solution and then additionally as Allison says you just need to get your office you just need to make sure that you know people know who you are that you're approachable that you're reliable that people can confide in you and that you're able to provide solutions so even just something as simple as Shane says but I'm just you just need to be very personable very just outgoing very reliable person and as I said you just need to make yourself out there and waiting in your office is a treatment model and it doesn't do much on the global level so just get out there and be mobile I'm here now I won't be here I want to be as well for officers so how are you going to get students to engage with the services and resources you provide especially if they may be embarrassed or intimidated to come and talk to you that's an interesting question and it's already that students don't actively use and I don't think you can put it down to a marketing problem as a lot of things have been put down to I think it comes down to being a mobile that suits you so you get on the ground and like it's a case of instead of just posting on Facebook okay we have this really cool thing and I would like y'all to come to it go down and talk to people talk to them on the shoulder and say hey look Sarah we've got this really cool workshop try and get them to come as a group don't go individually if you go with your friends you're obviously going to be more comfortable doing things like that I think it is just a case of if you're an approachable Sabat and I'm not saying that Sabat aren't because they have been brilliant but I'm just saying that if you go down and you mobilise yourself to mobilise other people we're going to get people to come with you and the more enthusiastic you are it's going to spread and breathe so that's how I do it yeah that was a really good question it works on two levels really diffusion of responsibility and then anonymity so as Alice says going in groups that's absolutely key you're not going to go to a sex doctor talk by yourself and it's just you in the sex doctor that would be the weirdest situation that's why you need to get groups you need to have things like oh there's subway as well so people will go okay I'll go for subway that's a really big thing you need to make sure that there's like a diffusion of responsibility that when people just go as a group you know it's still a better thing that one person that really needs it where they wouldn't go on their own so the concept of being mobile is really key anonymity in addition in addition there we go that's why the student blogs and the online peer support system is anonymous which is really really key because that encourages participation and cooperation and essentially progress people aren't going to that's why certain things like people and anonymity and confidentiality it'll encourage support within the services and eventually hopefully redirect to the appropriate services so that would be my answer to that yeah well if elected like as in I am a very important person and I want to draw myself around I want to be on the floor walking around talking to students in groups so I talk like if you can talk back to me I just so I think just get myself engaged with the students talking to the most groups of students telling them what's going on having to get involved where to go and I think that's how they go about it instead of using like social media it's great but there's not better than talking to someone face to face talking to groups of people face to face even going around canvassing there today whatever it's great to get to know people to know and when they get to know your personality they get to know who you are they'll find it easier to talk to you and come up to your office so I think so how are you going to ensure students have someone to reach out to outside of office hours and first up is Cody well I suppose the biggest thing is by putting yourself out there so every all the spots get like a kind of work phone and their work phone number is essentially passed around so basically especially with this role even though the concept of work life balance is really important urgency is always at every time so basically usually to ensure that the students are aware that this is your phone number I wouldn't say contact in case of emergency it is important of course that I get my own break to ensure that I'm like capable the next day that sort of thing but absolutely every time the urgency aspect outweighs the work life balance so it would just be a matter of letting people know this is my phone number it's available to contact at any time and I will do my best to reach out and support as best as I can essentially be my answer to making sure that I'm available all the time yeah that's me yeah well as Cody said with the work phone you can ring it at any time I'll be living around DCU I'll be living around Pat somewhere if I get a house they do that so like as in just a phone call a phone call away meet up and chat I'll be there I want to be that person that friendly person that's there for a chat there for a quick get together not quick get together long get together short get together whatever get together you want I'm there I'll be there for you the two boys covered it pretty much fully there it is about your work phone it is about people having that number but it's also about and people not being afraid to add you on Facebook and if you don't have your work phone on you they're not afraid to message you personally which is just a more personal way to get to you you're not ringing their work number you're writing them a message and saying hey look can I talk to you even if it is just over a messenger or something like that I think it's really important as well to utilise the system that is in place in DCU with the likes of the class reps and then the convenience because you might know me personally but you might know your class rep really well and it's to make you feel comfortable enough to be like okay I don't really feel that connected to the well for after do you know what class rep who can then get on to the convening who can then get on to the welfare officer and use that kind of channel and we're really lucky to have such a good class rep system here that I really think that will be possible VP Welfare and Equality candidates full of us for all of them and next up is Engagement and Development candidates if anyone knows how to turn off the air conditioning it's freezing up here Jellies I'm actually going to cover this one because I covered the other one before and I'm interested I don't want to Kev this is for my portfolio I stream I'll sing You get the you shouldn't get along yeah I don't know we're going to be in the mall with you know I've been I've been I've been I've been I've been I've been I've been I've been I've been I've been I've been I've been I've been I've been I've been I've been I've been I've been I've been I've been I've been I've been I've been I've been I've been I've been I've been I've been I've been I've been I've been I've been I've been I've been I've been I've been I've been I've been I've been here. I'm going to go in reverse order to how we did so on Tuesday. So we're starting off with Nisha, then Keith, then Emer, then Stephen, then Jack. So Nisha, you have two minutes. What's the quack lads? I've been making that joke in every class, in every class address I've done so far. It's killed me every time but I have to make it. Just media PR things you know. It's not even funny Anyway, I'm Nisha McHugh and I thought I'd take a moment to explain the role of engagement and development because it's a new position and yeah, no one really knows what it does so far. So as I understand it, the engagement and development officer is a facilitator for everything extracurricular going on in the college. Clubs and societies, volunteering activities, career development. That's the other one. Classwrap council. The big one, that was an embarrassing mistake. Yeah, so engagement to my mind is communication. It means making sure that everyone's aware of what's going on in the college. Getting in front is involved. They're willing and able to be. And development means training. It means making sure that everyone has the skill set required for their position and creating opportunities for students to develop their own skill sets. So to that end, I want to bring in time management workshops for students. But it's part of orientation for freshers and throughout the year for all students. I really feel like this will give more students the opportunity to get involved with extracurricular life in the college. And I'll also make sure that there are time management resources and scheduling apps available from the SU very easily accessible. The clubs and societies fair start of every year. It's one of the biggest events on the college. I want to make it bigger. I want it to be a week long and I want it to happen on all campuses to make sure that everyone gets the opportunity to find out just how diverse the clubs and society life in the college is. Thank you. I want to change the way in which clubs and society committee members are trained. The OSL program of development, I want to replace it with a weekend away, which is more folks around workshops, more fun. It would encourage clubs and society committee members to get to know each other and forge bonds between clubs and societies. A little bit about me. I was a class rep in my first year as nominated class rep for the School of Communications. I've been on five different clubs and societies. I'm not ducking around, but vote for me. Thank you very much. My name is Keith. I'm 22 years old and I'm a fourth year Bachelor of Education student. Engagement for me is all about inclusion. And inclusion is something we've done an awful lot in my teacher training over the course of the last four years. So you're trying to include every child and every lesson, regardless of interests or physical disabilities or learning disabilities or anything like that. So I see the job of engagement development officer as that same job just on a much, much bigger level. And I feel like I have enough experience in four years to be able to do it next year, not for 30 kids in the classroom, but for 15 to 16,000 students in DCU. The job description is quite short. But I think it's very broad. So I made my manifesto suitably broad. I don't want to limit what impact I can have next year. The first thing I'll be doing if elected is putting out an engagement survey. I want to find out from the students what they think about their own engagement in college life this year. I'll be doing that in May if elected. I'll be doing that again in September, and maybe twice throughout the following year, because I want to know if I'm doing my job properly. And I want to know by following May whether there's been an improvement or not. Another thing I'll be doing in September if elected is introducing or sorry, developing the bike rental scheme, the inter campus one that's already in place for staff, but not there for students. So if it's there for staff, I don't see why we can't push and get it for the students next year. So they can travel with these from St. Patrick's campus to DCU to Glass 11 campus to all Hallows. Another bit of the job description is about the development and the training of the membership. So it's obvious you come to college for a degree and that's what you leave with. But I want to give opportunities for the students to develop holistically and not just academically. So an example of that would be offering peer listening courses to the students so they can learn how to speak to their friends who have mental health problems. Finally, I just want to say if you like what I have said, or if you've met me around the place, please do vote for me. You're not sure take your time because you can vote any day up until Wednesday. Please approach me. I'll be around as much as I can and contact me on Facebook or whatever you want. Thanks for listening. Vote Keith for engagement. So my name's Emer and I'm a final year student in St. Pat's studying humanities. And just a brief thing about myself. I have been involved in both societies here and in St. Pat's. I was chair on a society down in St. Pat's and I've also been involved heavily in DCU as a society and I'm currently producer of Glee which will be on the Helix on Monday. So throughout my time at DCU in St. Pat's I've made wonderful friends and made wonderful memories. And that's why I feel that I have a lot to give back. I have so many wonderful ideas that I really want to share with you all and try and get everyone as involved as I have been and enjoy their college times just as much as I have. And that is why I'm running to be your first ever vice president for engagement development. So the new incorporation with DCU affects thousands of students across both campuses. I want to work with the Office of Student Life and with the SU to make sure that all the students realize that there is so many facilities that they can utilize and so many support services available. It's important also that especially in this role that each student has representation. So I want to work with the Class Reps system by getting sufficient training with help from the USI. And I want to add to their training and support the new Class Reps that will come in now next year and as well support the same Path Reps that aren't just on the same level as the DCU. It is a big difference. The system is different. So I want to help that. I'm not sure if a lot of you have heard about the UNI module if you're here in DCU you probably have but if you're in the same path you haven't. I personally haven't and I've been so involved in societies that I feel it would have helped me over my time. So basically it's an accreditation that you get marks, you get module. Oh god. Okay. You get marks for being involved in extracurricular things. So I want to help get that set up as well as the open badge system that Kim has been working on. DCU is Ireland's largest university based access programme and has wonderful things such as peer mentoring systems and extracurricular classes that I would work along with the academic affairs officer. So basically I have loads of stuff I want to talk about but please check out my manifesto on my Facebook page and I want to get everyone involved in clubs and societies as well as one too. Please vote for me. Hi everyone. I'm Steven. Hope you're having fun. So okay basically I'm here. I'm trying to represent in SU that's more about engaging with people. I want to develop an SU where we come to the people, the people don't have to go to the closed doors and I mean we wasted enough of your time talking all day. I'm not sure who's even listening by this point. I'm very hungry. I don't want to talk a whole load. And I have a great manifesto. I hope you see it and I really want to talk to everybody personally. Thank you. My name is Jack Bruton and I am currently a third year student in St. Patrick's College. I'm running for the role of VP for engagement and development. Why did I decide to run for this role? After almost three years in college, I know how important it is to have an approachable and friendly face during your college years. Someone who has experienced exactly what you are discovering each day. This is why I am so passionate about getting this role. I believe that it is hugely important to compliment your academic pursuits with personal development and I will ensure that you have a full range of entertainment and social events so that you can get the best from your student body. What I promise to deliver if elected are the following. Bigger and better SU events, the retention of certain past events and an introduction of a DCU rag week and ends committee where students can have their say on the happenings in both campuses. Daytime activities, which are commuter friendly and the aim is in participation. Participation participation is something which I am hugely passionate about because I want to reach out and make sure that I involve each and every student class and of course, the engagement and promotion of class representative councils. I will promise to hold two training trip events, one for each semester so that this powerful body, sorry, no, so that this powerful body can show how they have a great method of learning and sharing. So my name is Jack Brun, give me Vodal Ibrahim Moshidahole. A question or questions are closed now if you haven't sent them in written ones, but I'll take one or two from the floor. So question number one and Keith is answering first. What are you going to do to encourage those on placement to come back to campus and engage in life on campus? It's quite difficult, so I was on place myself for quite a number of weeks. You could be out for 10 weeks, there was a full semester where we were gone and at the moment all of my year is actually gone. So my numbers of supporters are kind of dwindling at the moment. You have to incentivise something for them to actually come back to us. So really, I suppose it's nice out in social events that people won't come back to. If you're on placement, you're either going to go and look for support or you're going to look to come back and have a bit of crack basically. You're kind of at home, especially if you're, say if you're from May or whatever, if you're three or four hours away from Dublin, you're not going to be going up for no reason. So you have to put on some sort of event that they would have an interest in going to or, of course, the other alternative would be to offer support, so whether that be with placement or whether it be with mental health services that people might struggle over in their own placement as well. And that's a very good question. So basically through my manifesto, I did mention the uni module at Goodbyn. I know everyone mentions it every year, but I think that it would be great for people such as nurses. They can't they're out on placement and the uni module doesn't exist for them. So I think like if they came to an event that was late at night, they were getting marks for that they would come in. That's an incentive to come in as well as that you do need to organise events for them in the during the evenings. And if they're involved in clubs and societies, you have to gear that towards their passion. If they're involved in music, if they like music, they'll do music. If they're involved in drama, they'll come back and do it. If that's what they want to do, it's the same for sports. You just need to make it available to them and make sure that the time suit everyone, not just the people who are based here on campus. I know even for mature students, it's difficult for them if they have families coming in late at night might suit them a little bit better. If you just need to try and make things available for everyone and make it all on the needy part. Okay, so yeah, placement's kind of a hard one to get to exactly. I know a lot of people on placement and they find it very tough to actually come into college and do anything like that. So again, it is very much about socialising. I'm hoping for classrooms to have a mandatory organising of class nights out. But then, apart from the whole socialising side, there's also the engagement development. It's far more involved in the workshops and things like that. So there's all the CV workshops. There's one that I'm really involved in is the mindfulness workshop. So I'm trying to bring these sort of things to the people rather than having the actual workshops. I don't see why we can't have things available online. I've been in contact with the leading mindfulness app at the moment there for the world. It's called Headspace. They've offered half price for all these new students if I get elected. So it's just things like that. You know, it's easy to do. It's just bringing it to them. Yeah, I think this is very important because they're students that are gone away for the whole of the semester. They're back. They've missed out. They don't know what to expect. That's why every opportunity I get, I want to have events organised for these students so that they can engage with the other students that weren't away. Events such as bring your own, say, bring your own beer events in DCU, PACS. We all have to get to know each other. It's all about student involvement and this role of engagement and development. So I want to create as many events as I can possible for each student. Work with the Education and Placement Officer is the most obvious thing I can think of. One of the candidates for it, I think it was Stephen Rickson, but I'm not entirely sure, was talking about having specific events geared towards people on placements. So I would make sure that those are happening first of all and then I'd make sure that while those are happening, events which are happening back here at the college on all campuses are being promoted to just to make sure that people on placement know what's going on, I think that's the extent of my ideas at the moment, but I can certainly see that this is an area that needs thought. Next question. The SC President has put a lot of work into projects this year. Will you be continuing on any of these next year and how? And the first person. So this is actually something that I really focused on in my manifesto. So thanks for whoever put in that question. And basically Kim has been working tirelessly on the open badge system, which is actually an accreditation which would have a virtual badge for if you're involved in class rep systems or that you're a faculty rep. So basically all your hard work and your dedication to the class reps and to your own faculty would be recognized by DCU and you can then post that badge on your LinkedIn. So I think that's so important and that would be one of my main things that I would focus on that the SC have dealt with this year that I would like to carry on. I'm not entirely sure about these projects to be honest. Maybe they haven't reached me. I don't know a whole lot about them. So I suppose I'd promote them. I mean, that's as much as I can say, I don't know what they are. These projects, whatever projects there. Yeah, I can say to say entirely the same, but promotion of these is huge through social media, Facebook, Twitter. Like I want to be out there as much as I can to be seen by the people. And I want to make sure that I promote and engage with this role. So I'd continue on from those projects as well. Apart from the open batch system, which Emers brought up and the only projects of Kims that I know of is the Yo-Yo wallet system, which when I say I know it, I don't know a whole lot about us. As far as I can tell, it looks quite interesting. I haven't used it personally, but people seem rather fond of this. So I'd push that. In terms of other things, I don't know about I have the utmost respect for Kim herself and she's done a fantastic job as president. So absolutely things she's been working on. I can see myself pushing forward to be absolutely honest. I'm not that familiar with Kim's work coming from St. Patrick's Campus. We wouldn't have an awful lot of I don't know, the communication was really there. So I don't actually know what projects she's been running up here. But one thing I can say is I've kind of keenly looked at the St. Patrick's president and vice president for the last three years. And you're always kind of making observations about what one person is doing well or what they're not doing well. I'd be hoping to take the positive aspects of even Rory and Racker that are in place this year, the positive aspects of their personality, like their approachability and their organization and their communication. I'd be picking out those three straight away and saying, well, there are three things that I want to develop on myself to work on next year. And of course, if there's any projects like that as well, that I think deserve to be kept on, I'll 100% tell them about them. Thank you. Before I go to questions from the floor, just a tip, if you don't know what the answer you are doing, ask them. Questions from the floor, I'll take two. Thank you. Great. So what are your ideas to improve attendance at Class Rep Council? And Stephen, is that your first? Yeah, I mean, Class Reps is such a big part of the engagement development role. I want to be really involved with Class Reps. And I mean, there's obviously a reason why people aren't going to classes. I know you've been trying things, but have you like, I mean, what are the problems that people have been having? Why aren't they going to it? Is it a lack of entertainment? And personally, I was first time I sat in it was the last one. And I mean, it wasn't what I thought it was going to be. There was a lot of jargon. There wasn't a social scene. You know, it was it wasn't something to be enjoyed. It was felt like work. And I doesn't have to be like that. I mean, Class Reps should be something to be proud of it. They should be trained. They should know what they're talking about. And they should absolutely have something to look forward to, like, at the CRC's. So I'd say anyway, and I'd ask the people, I'd ask the Class Reps, what are the problems and I'd work on that. And the engagement and promotion of the Class Representative Council is something which is very important to me. I know it's something that's just simple, but from the outset, I want to make sure that they have their own buddies that it's clearly seen that Class Reps have a say on what is happening, have an output or like an input on what is happening in the student agenda. I promise to organize two training trips, one for each semester, so that it is shown like they know what to do. They have an enjoyable time. It can be seen that they're approachable around both campuses. That's so like if they have an incentive to go, then that's they'll call her hopefully. One of the things on my manifesto is a sort of informal coffee morning specifically for Class Reps. I want this primarily because it gets Class Reps meeting an informal sense where they can, you know, discuss things they feel are problems, discuss solutions to them, etc. I feel like attendance is always going to be a problem. When I was a Class Rep, we routinely struggled to maintain quorum. Like the two Class Rep councils I've been at this year, they were both very well attended, but apparently that's not a regular thing. From talking to you, Katie, what I the sense I got was that you need to be the engagement development officer needs to be harsher on Class Reps. So I'm obviously reluctant to go right out and say I will make it absolutely mandatory to attend Class Rep councils. But that's something I'd look at. If I can see it being viable and effective, then that's what I'll do. To deal with that issue, I won't. Yeah, so one suggestion I would have for my very first one the last day that I did enjoy. I think it could be a bit shorter. I know that was one of the motions that was put forward and I was kind of listening. I was like, yeah, I'd back that as well as that I'd give the Class Reps and actually more incentive to go because they are doing good work there. It's not like they're getting paid for it or anything. So there should be, as you say, some sort of social setting. So even if, you know, they went to Class Rep meeting one night the following day, they could have jump zone paid for them or something like that. Something very similar. But just to get the meeting outside of the usual setting like that, because they are putting in their own time for no pay or anything like that. And the last one I would say is if somebody is like continuously poor, has continuously poor attendance, I just go straight to the other Class Rep or go to I just get a new Class Rep put in because that class deserves to have representation at those meetings. So don't you have the rule put in place that however many times you've missed, then you'd be gone after that. Thanks. And from actually looking into this myself and being Class Rep myself, I do understand the difficulties in this. So basically, I know that in DCU there is a lot of stick about like how long they are and the motion was and put forward the other day. I know that is up to the chair at the time and a lot of that has to be dealt with. Also, another issue is the by the Constitution that you have to, you can miss up to like four of them without giving a reason. So I would like to run a referendum to change that that you can miss, too, because it's not fair if there's only going to be two per semester or three per semester. You can't miss all three of them. That's not representing your class. The whole point of being Class Rep is to represent. I would also like to put forward the social side of it. The jump zone idea is brilliant. Having just little gatherings as well as in my manifesto, I have mentioned having leadership workshops at least once or twice every semester to help with classrooms. I'll take one more question from the floor. Can't hear you at all. So, starting with Jack, what are you going to do to mix classrooms, cover their responsibilities as well as just turning up to Class Rep Council? Sorry for jumping up to there too quickly. I actually had a plan. But no, I think like the engagement and development role is hugely important. And they have to be shown like the training trips are huge. Like people have to know exactly what they're going to do. And that's why getting this role is like it's the first person. This is the first time this role is there. And whoever gets it first is going to shape how that role is going to be for next whatever, how many amount of years it's going to be there for. So I think it's hugely important to have train trip events to show the Class Reps exactly how they're supposed to deal with this. Again, with the getting Class Reps to meet in an informal sense, it gets them talking about the problems that they feel are going on. So that's one thing I feel is important. The other thing I think is quite important is making sure there's sort of there's a very clear process for complaining about your Class Rep. So I'd say first going to the faculty rep so up to them. And then I'd say straight up to either the chair of the CRC or the engagement development officer would be the next step. It's what I've gotten from it is that it's very important part of the Class Rep's duties is to relay information back to students from the Class Rep Council. So I think that that needs to be a big part of training is making sure the Class Reps understand that that their job doesn't end once they've you know attended the Class Rep Council. They have to actually talk to their class. That's my thoughts on the subject anyway. OK, sorry. Straight away, it'd be a question that I put into my engagement survey that I'd be planning on putting out there. I would say, do you think your Class Rep has had do you know an influence on your engagement in college life? Is there is there a connection there? Because you can find out straight away if the Class Rep is doing their job or not a way to make it easier for them to do their job. I try and streamline everything, maybe with I don't know, you could have a WhatsApp group just with all the Class Reps and then they could have ones with their own individual class. So if there's a message that the engagement development officer wants to relay to the entire student body, they put it into that WhatsApp first and then they all get the messages forwarded on into their own one as well. I think that could make their job a little bit easier. But but you're right, it's an important question. I will ask you something about it. Yeah, that again is another major issue. And basically member, a student is not going to go to their Class Rep and complain about their Class Rep. So you need to ensure as engagement and development vice president, you would need to ensure that you are down on the floor and that you are making sure that all these jobs are done. You would have to work extremely closely with the faculty reps to make sure that you are making sure that is your main role is to make sure that every voice on the campus is heard. I also I am aware that like the engagement survey is brilliant. But I do know that the volunteering hub have their own surveys and I'm sure that the clubs and sox do have their own surveys on engagement. So I would feel that you need to run a survey for classes directed at classes that they fill out further class. Do I feel that my class rep is doing a sufficient job? And do I feel that means this needs to be addressed? Therefore, then that vice president for engagement about to go straight down and analyze what needs to be done to help benefit that. Okay, class reps aren't going to do their job unless they want to be a class rep. I think it's all about making being a class rep enjoyable. And I think that it's about class reps being something to look forward to for them to be trained properly. You know, if a class rep doesn't know what they're doing, they're not going to do it right. And the training this year, I know I think those the one weekend away. I don't see why there's and plenty of weekends away, why they're not being trained sufficiently why it's not something that everybody wants to be going for. Because as far as I know the turnout for class rep after first year is so minimal. It's obviously not what people thought it would be. And so we need to find out what they wanted to be. And so the final question and again, you don't have some nations. So use the answer as wisely as you'd like. How do you propose to expose students in intensive programs to the S.U. slash social life in D.C.U. And we are starting off with Misha. This is actually one of the first points on my manifesto is getting students in very intense courses, which I've always felt it's a big problem with colleges, students in the intense courses, they don't get to take part in what's going on. So I want time management workshops again, during orientation and throughout the year so that people are able to make time to make sure that they're like they're able to make time to get involved. The second problem with that is making sure that they know what's going on. So that ends I. I think the biggest thing to do is to. Push the S.U. media outlets. Whether Facebook or Twitter or any other social network and. Then finally, I would make sure that events are being posted and just talked about in all faculty buildings on all campuses rather than just here in the hub. I'm tired. I'm sorry. For me, I think like the daytime fun activities they've kind of been already covered and so have the social nighttime activities. They're definitely covered. But those people in intensive courses want is just an hour of something fun in the evening that they can do. And there's a definite gap in the market there. Like, I don't know what there is in existence already, but something like a fun run, something like going to jump so on for an hour, hitting them with evening activities there. If they come home from a long day of work or a long day and they have to start studying again in the evening, you want to give them join an enjoyable hour there or the evening where they'll be able to make the most of it because they won't be able to go out and do not sleep in the following day or they won't be able to take a full day off work to involve themselves in daytime activities. So something like campus barbecues, going to jump so on or fun runs is something that I'd suggest. That is a really tough question. Basically, daytime activities, as Keith said, they're daytime activities and nighttime activities have really been covered, but you just need to make people aware. People will get involved if they're passionate about something. That's what I really believe. No matter, like I know myself coming from St. Pat's, I always travel up to DCU three times a week to go to what I believe is something I really enjoy doing. So I feel that it's just about time management as well. If I'm elected, I feel, Nisha, that is a brilliant idea. It's all about getting people involved, which is international students. It affects everyone. Everyone should be able to get involved. And it's hard when you are balancing a really tough, intense course, but you just have to try and work around it. And I would try and get as much help with that one as I can. That's a terrible answer. But yeah, that's basically it. Please vote for me. I'd like to announce that I am going to create a nap room for students so that if they've had a hard day, they can nap. Yeah, that doesn't need any more explaining. I think that was rude. Thanks. This is something I'm very passionate about. So like you have to compliment your academic pursuits with personal development. And that's why I want people. I want to have a full range of events and social events and part sorry, social events ready for people. Like I want, as Keith said, outside barbecue, something like an outdoor cinema session, something's where you can relax, have an hour or two off and like just something to have, have free time. Excellent. Well done to all of our candidates. Big round of applause. Not least my favorite position because I'm not biased. I was once an education officer. Academic affairs. So can I have James and James, pretty face? Last one of the day. Anyone need to stretch or you're all doing OK? Yeah. So we're going to do the same as we've done before. Two minutes opening and then questions. If you've got any questions, she's left, you do. No questions, she's left. Oh, yeah, everyone's. Yeah, if you would like to write down your questions, you can do so over here. If you'd like to ask your questions, I will call on the floor. If you'd like to move closer, that would also be great. Like just from my perspective, it's just empty here right in front of them, the poor buzz. So we're going to go in reverse order to what we did the other day. So James Nolan is going to be going first after you have two minutes. Jesus, I tell you the I'd say I have some caffeine in the lunch over the whole day. But anyway, on a serious note, I'm a second year computer application student. I'm a student as well. And I know what each standard students have. So I feel that I can represent students very well. So first thing is I'm the current faculty rep for engineering and computing. I'm also the treasurer for the Harry Potter Society here in DCU. So I feel I can bring on an awful lot of the rule of academic affairs, officer. My whole family, my man is from a teaching background, CICE. My cousins are also CICE. So I feel as well that I can represent the teachers in the office as well. So I'm very passionate about. So the issues that I want to talk about, the issues that affect every student here in DCU, the issues that I've seen and students come to me as faculty rep these sorts of issues. So I'm going to give a brief outline of what I'm about because an awful lot of this is on my Facebook page. So basically, I want to be an on-the-ground support officer and on-the-ground academic affairs officer for students. Some of you might have seen me this year with the FUSU Odeon and I've been around an awful lot. And that is helped because students know who I am and they can ask me any questions that feel necessary. As well as that, I think I should bring on a first-year induction talk. I've been talking to an awful lot of first-years and they say like, you know, I wasn't at work when my time came to start of the year. I was, I missed lectures because no one went around to start of the year. I wouldn't do that. I go around to first-years at the very start of the year and help them with that as well. I'm also improving the library as well, more clothes, more access. I also want to bring an answered card. It's something that TCU has and you can access libraries all around the country as well with that. A Horizon program, UCD has it, where you can study stuff outside your own college as well. I want to bring that in as well. Earlier CA and earlier repeat results. So my name is James Nolan. If you have any questions talk, put them to me because I'm not afraid of answering them. So if you have any questions talk, if you feel necessary at me. Thanks very much for listening. How are you going guys? My name is James Dunnew. I'm the current education officer, former Hurlin Club Chairman. I've been a Hurlin coach for the last four years and I love interaction with students and this role in particular. For me, this role is about two things, support and representation. Support is really important. Last year, I answered over 2,000 emails. This year, I want to do similar but I also want to bring that up a level. We've 16,000 students across all campuses. Exam results is an extremely difficult time and anyone involved in this role previously would tell you that. What I want to do is a free headline after exam results for the days afterwards so students can receive support whether they're here or whether they're abroad or whether they're at home. It's represent representing all students. The other thing with this role is you're always asked about tours. Looking at other universities and what they do, I want to send out a survey at the start of the year to see what kind of grinds are needed in certain courses. That also gives me cause to lobby to certain degrees to see where students are exactly struggling. The other thing which I want to do is a careers week. We ran a this year in DCU as a success and the careers office are happy to do that again on a bigger and better scale across all campuses. The second part of my role representation is extremely important. We've 16,000 students in DCU. I currently sit on 16 different committees. How I represent students on all those committees will be even better next year from the experience this year. I know the people who will support me in those committee meetings university-wide but also the fact that I've earned my stripes in there and will be supported further. Please, please do vote for me. It would mean the absolute war but also would mean a lot to the union to have me around for another year to help guide the new officers in as well. Thanks a million. So the question is a lot of students in the business school are struggling with accounting and maths. There aren't enough resources and supports available to them. What are you going to do to alleviate that? And the question goes to Dana Hooper. Yeah, that's a that's a good question but I can tell you now there's there's courses struggling all over here. First of all, it's important to represent students everywhere. This year, we done that through the National Student Survey to get proper results to bring to committees. The second thing if students come to me and they're struggling in the business faculty, I can help them on two counts. First with student support and development, secondly with tutors. But the other thing is communication between me and the staff in the business school. Promoting resources like the Maths Learning Centre. But also accountancy has came up in one of the other people's manifesto. It's looking at things like code we put in the County Learning Centre in place by the Student Union to lobby other other organisations in the university to say we're lagging here and we have to bring the university after bringing it up and the Student Union shouldn't be doing that. And the Student Union by promoting workshops like this means that we're taking the slack and that the university have to come up to scratch. That's a that's a very good question. Many business students have said that to me as well. So the first thing I would look at the Alistair card that gives you resources, gives you access to other libraries around the unit or the Dublin and you can get those books as well. But also what I would look at is uni tuition. So we've worked an awful lot of uni tuition this year by tutors. There's been a problem with that in that not a lot of tutors are available and also the price as well. Students sometimes can't afford tutors so they can't afford grants. What I would look at is getting tutors, getting graduates to come back in and providing those kinds of grants as well. There's students here as well that are looking for jobs. Some of them are unemployed. I'm sure they'd be happy to give grants as well. So that's something I'd look at and I'd work for the class rep and the business faculty rep on that as well. And accounting, learning centre is a good idea but I'm just not sure if in regards to funding if it is it's kind of a niche thing but I'm not sure if it's that if it's that you know if it's that feasible for funding wise but yeah, definitely a look into that. Thanks for that question as well. Okay, so one of the questions that was asked for all candidates earlier was how are you going to integrate the Irish language into your role? Okay, I tried to speak Irish last year last year's Wilson's and I said it's all now called backwards so I'm not going to try to speak Irish this time around. And I'm very passionate about Irish. I love Irish so what I would do is I'd work with the Irish officer and I'd work with the faculty rep for education because I'd assume they'd have a good background in Irish. Translate some of the things that the union puts out into Irish as well as that I was at an event which come on Gailoch there this year and they had an idea whereby before they went out to Shide Night you did, like you did events off gig so you said one, two, three and then you took a drink and then you said four in English and if you didn't get that right you basically had to drink the whole thing. So I know that's kind of an alcoholic event but yeah, never mind. But basically what I do is I'd also look at doing events in two Irish students love to talk Irish I was in a bar over in Santa Ponson during the summer and I got insulted in Spanish and I insulted a man back in Irish and what happened was an Irish man across the bar heard me and said and started laughing so that's like, you know there is, Irish is a really university and there's loads of people that speak it and definitely I wouldn't mode it and I'd include it in my manifesto and include it in any publications that I do as well and I'd make an erotic joke as well to put my stuff in Irish. Yeah, the Irish language is something that has already been included in my manifesto I am passionate about and passionate about supporting it. This year there's the added advantage that there will be an Irish language officer and looking at the budget definitely as part of my manifesto there will be funds set aside to promote the Irish language with them. The other thing is thinking long term is wanting I'd like to implement as kind of a cafe kind which will be a social area set aside weekly for Irish speakers to come because not everyone's involved in societies and stuff like that in events so someone who's been secluded might be able to come to cafe kind and speak in their native language. And look in long term we have a new hope in the process and sitting the students union will be involved in the plan and that so we can definitely talk about having set aside space there for Irish speakers or bilingual speakers or people who just want to come and listen to the Irish language. Any questions? Trust me, you don't want me making them up for this position. Excellent. What are you going to bring to the new role of academic affairs that wasn't in the previous role of education officer? And Donahouse. Yeah, it's about building on the previous role and it's a new challenge. There's more students. There's more campuses but it's about relaying things out across all the campuses. It's about getting the role across all the campuses. Like I don't think anyone's taught about this bar myself bar next year. You have to represent across two campuses. So I will be planning set times to be on certain campuses for feedback for representing students. Also I've been sitting on meetings across all the campuses but office hours are important. It's a support role. You have to be in your office for students of certain times. And I think the first thing I will be doing is setting the times if elected when I'm going to be on the St. Pat's campus, when I'm going to be on the DCU campus and letting students know when I'm there so they can call up. Yep, definitely. So one way I have this position is that we might be actually operating across four campuses. I've been talking for a matter of a day and from what I've heard from the staff there, third and final years might be finishing out their degree there as well and they also have a library. So there's also going to be facilities down there and students looking for support. You've also heard with CRC that the Fienter School might be moving to All Hallows as well. That's another campus that's going to be open. That's four campuses that we're going to have to represent students across. So what I would do is I would work with the Education and Placement Officer because basically the two roles do intervene an awful lot. So that works bit and half. So what I would do is during when I go around to first years in the induction, I would give them my office hours and I'd also give them the hours when I'm around those campuses. So they would know where I am and when to find me and as well as that, like I've been around an awful lot. One thing in my manifesto is being approachable and being very visible to students. So that's how I'd plan to go about representing them, the mountain campuses that we're going to get because we're going to be representing 16,000 students next year and it's going to be a big job. I think on my level for it as well. So that's a bunch of questions now already. So you're going to have to get in ahead of me. Anyone, questions? Okay, just so you know me, I was an Education Officer for my university, then I was an Education Officer for Ireland, then I was in the European Student Union. So I'm like, you don't get more hacky than me. So you don't want to listen to my questions. But you do, okay. No, that'd be a great question. Okay, I'm going to ask a nice question and then I'll go to Katie. So you've talked about wanting to support students, like you've talked about being available on campus but one of the most important things when your student rep is actually attending meetings and engaging with staff and different bodies. So what experience do you have in being the only student in the room and having to get your point across and how are you going to manage your time when you've got lengthy meetings to prepare for and go to as well as looking after students one-on-one and providing their services? Very good question. So there's two things I want to address there. Time management and business bridges with staff. Firstly, the faculty rep for engineering and computing last year didn't attend any of the education meetings in my faculty. So I had the job of building up links with academic staff from my faculty and I also had the job of getting to know them. So what I've done this year is I've built up links with staff from my faculty and I can bring this experience to linking all the five campuses together and working on that as well. The second thing, time management. Anyone that knows me this year will know how busy I've been. I've been a treasurer for Harry Potter. I've organized the U of O that cost thousands of euro. I've been the faculty rep for engineering and computing and I've put my heart and soul into doing that. As well as that, I'm studying one of the most intensive programs in the university, which is computer applications. So time management is a thing that I'm able to do very well and I think I can bring the experience that I've gained from what I've done this year to the role of academic affairs next year and I think I can build bridges with staff very well. I can also build bridges with the new students that are coming in. For example, CICE can't vote this year. They will be in next year and I know of issues that are going to be facing and then make sure that I'll be able to help them out. For example, they took early learning in third year and the BA program takes them first year. That's one thing I would be looking at as well. Well, I suppose I'd like to think I'm doing that already, but the main thing is to gauge the rooms. It's about earning respect and it's about quite simply, if you're good at your job, staff will respect you and it's about representing students rightfully and it's about, also sometimes it's about picking staff who are going aside with you. Like I know I bring certain things to meetings and I have a discussion with staff before I bring them to the meeting and I discuss them with senior management ability and there's discussion before they're brought in the meeting. Representing students in meetings isn't about just going in and giving them an opinion. It's about putting in the graph beforehand, researching, making sure there's some meat behind it before you go into that meeting. The other thing is it's about branching out on those committee meetings and juggling their time and seeing what's important. Like we spoke about Church of Ireland and things. I'm currently adding myself to their appeals procedure and their appeals meetings. So it's about getting on those committees and representing students where needed. So without using the words hardworking, experienced, enthusiastic or interested, why are you most suitable for this role? Because I've none of those things. Because I love the role. And you can talk about all those things and none of those things come unless you have an affection towards something like that. None of those things are possible unless you understand it. And you can use those things all you want, but unless you actually enjoy doing stuff like that, that's why it. The other thing is I've been around a while and I'm 23 years of age. I've been in the role before. But also looking at the new roles, why am I suitable for this role? Because I can help the other roles branch in. An awful lot of the people who are running for other roles struggle to answer some of the questions. By the time I'm elected and by the time they are elected, coming in the summer, hopefully every question that's been thrown at every candidate here today will be helped to answer by me. And even if I'm not elected, God forbid, I'll be able to help them join the summer anyway. Without using those words, I wouldn't be able to use those words unless I said this meant an awful lot to me. It's a very good question. The reason I'm running for this, and the reason I run for every position I run for over the last two years is passion. I have a passion for student representation and I have a passion when I hear of issues that students have, I want to solve them and I'm driven to solve them. When I came in here in first year, before I started, I set up my course page. I then became the class rep. I then ran for faculty rep because there were so many issues with my course and so many issues with my faculty. That's why I think I'm suited to this position. As well as that, being a faculty rep, I mean the positions I've had and being on the societies, I know an awful lot of people and I know the issues that they've had and what the problems that they've had and what they say to me is incorporation isn't fair as well. So what I think I'll be able to bring to this role is that my expertise and my passion will be brought to this role and I will work with every new position because I've sat on the Student Union Executive as well and I worked out these positions with the rest of the Executive so I know what should go into these roles as well. And as well as that, I've already held some candidates who came to me and asked me questions and I've been very fair in my approach to every candidate. I've given every candidate the same information. So engagement and development, education and placement, the lads there and pats have some serious issues and I've listened to all of them and they're on my manifesto as well. So if elected or if not elected, I will be helping all those positions as well because that's how passionate I am. Irregardless of how this goes, I want to make an effect here, I want to make a change here and I want to improve student life here in DCU and that's across the five faculties. Thanks very much. There has never been a female education officer in DCU. Yeah. Gosh. Is there a role that only six years old, you've found deputy president and not used to help out? No, but since the role has been education officer it hasn't been a female. Yeah, what are you going to do to get more women involved in the education brief? Nolan. So one of the girls running for engineering and computing faculty rep this year is a FEM engineer. She set up the FEM engineer in engineering. Her name's Averill Hayden. So she's probably the only woman running for faculty rep and there hasn't been a female faculty rep in engineering computing as well. But what I would do to bring girls into this position, I think there has been a female education officer before but she has had something of this sort of DCU. But what I would do is, as Sean said in his hustles, we are going to have a university with the biggest amount of women in the country. So hats and education, there's an awful lot of women in it. Like I come from a course but there's no, like there's a minority of women in computing. So what I want to do is I will encourage women to run for this role. I'll work with women in leadership. I'll work with Kim Sweeney who has an awful lot of experience as well. If elected or not elected, I want to see women running for this role because they should be running for this role. Gender equality is a big thing of mine as well. And there should be women running for it and they shouldn't be afraid to get up here and speak as well and the same for men as well. They shouldn't be afraid. There should be more workshops and there should be more encouragement for women to run for every position. I'm disappointed as well that there's only two candidates in this race. There's no candidates for matter today if you haven't noticed as well. That's like, why is that? The student union needs to do more to encourage people to run for election. It's the same problem every year. And if elected or not elected, I will work very hard to promote people to run for these positions. Thanks very much. It's a difficult question. There's no two ways about it. Not in the sense that I really think women should be running for roles like this in the student union, not just the academic affairs position or anything like that. And you've seen the women in leadership workshops. But there's other things. It's about promoting women who are in leadership roles and providing the inspiration for women. Now, there's a committee set up this year and the welfare officer sits on it. And I have an interest. It's called the Athena Swan. And that's more so about promoting women who are in leadership roles. It's about encouragement and it's about showing the leadership and showing the way forward so women can be encouraged to go into those things. Also, it's probably about making it easier to run for election and looking at how campaigns are running stuff and looking at doing a survey, maybe something next year on, is it easy enough to run for election in DCU? Because it's strenuous. It's stressful. And looking at the best way forward and making it more accessible to run for roles. I, myself, only ran last year because my friends encouraged me last minute. And I think it's about sometimes women are their own personal enemies in colleges like this. And it's known that girls sometimes don't fall for girls. And it's about getting women themselves to encourage other girls to run for their role. It's about engaging and it's about picking the women who are leaders in this university, showing them as inspiration and then getting women themselves to encourage each other to run for roles like this. Will we close it here? Are there any burning questions? Go on, Alan. What is your stance on the reefer at them? What are your stance on the reefer at them? Don't know. I don't think it's really anything to do with the role. Personally, I will probably, go a bit first first and say it, I will probably vote no. But obviously the role for students is to bring up topical issues. And if the students vote yes, it will be my job to support the campaign. On a personal level, growing up back home in the place called Backwater, it's drugs have kind of seeped in and I think it's wrong and I don't think the law enforces it enough personally. And I think in areas like that with high depression and stuff, I think if drugs get into areas like that, I think it is bad. And we can say, you can take them safely and stuff like that, all you want. But sometimes if there is an underlying addiction or anything like that, it's bad. That's my personal opinion and I could easily say up here and say, I'm in support of it, but it's my personal opinion and I'm gonna give my personal opinion. I'm personally mad, but personally, I'm gonna vote no. But if the students support it, I think it's a student-led campaign and it's something the SU could support their campaign and definitely if it's vote yes, but personally opinion, no. Yeah, so I think I will vote yes to it, but I can't be swayed there. I'm talking to students an awful lot about this as well because they're like, hey, what's this referendum about? I didn't know it was on. So there's some good issues that may raise. There's actually an audience member here I was having a chat with earlier. He said to me that one problem with this is that it's not in the education system that Ireland isn't ready for this sort of change yet. So one thing we need to look at is bringing drugs and bringing the effects of using drugs and educating students on using the drugs. It is a very, very big question. It's going to be controversial, like the abortion referendum as well. I don't know what way I'm going to vote yes. I think I'll vote yes to it, but definitely I think it needs to be brought into education as well. There's lots of good points from both sides on this issue. I think we actually need, I thought I'd like a hostings like this. We need a yes and a no side. I don't think there has been something, a proposal like that yet, but I think a proposal like this, maybe next week sometime to have a yes and a no debate about this would be a good idea as well and to have it here as well. Because to be honest, I'm not that informed that I'm running a campaign as well. I'm flat out trying to run a campaign, so I need to do an awful lot more research as well. I think students need to be informed on this referendum because they haven't been so far. If anyone is willing to register themselves as the yes or no side of the campaigns, because currently no one is registered with a turning officer to run a yes or a no campaign, please contact me. Thank you so much to everybody for staying, especially for like five hours, like some of us have been here for. Well done. This is the end of the hostings. Big congratulations and full of buster, the VP academic affairs committee. And you'll all be notified as soon as you're able to cast your vote. So you're lovely. You're turning out to the left. Please give a round of applause.