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Written Answers — Department of Finance: Special Educational Needs (25 Jan 2024)

Paul Kehoe: 203. To ask the Minister for Finance if special needs assistants are entitled to claim flat rate expenses as other employees can do; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3425/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (25 Jan 2024)

Paul Kehoe: 277. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to confirm if a person (details supplied) has enough paid contributions to make an application for a contributory pension from before she left Ireland; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3513/24]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Business of Joint Committee (24 Jan 2024)

Paul Kehoe: Apologies have been received from Senator Fiona O'Loughlin. Are the minutes of the meeting of 12 December agreed to? Agreed. A lot has happened since. I remind members to ensure their mobile phones are switched off for the duration of the meeting as they interfere with the broadcasting equipment, even if on silent mode.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Update on Key Issues: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (24 Jan 2024)

Paul Kehoe: This evening we are meeting with the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, Deputy Simon Harris. On behalf of the committee, I welcome the Minister and his officials. The Minister is here to update the committee on key issues, specifically student accommodation and the cost-of-living crisis; the teaching of economics at tertiary level; progress made in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Update on Key Issues: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (24 Jan 2024)

Paul Kehoe: I should have welcomed the Minister's officials at the start. I want to mention Dr. O'Reardon and congratulate him on his recent appointment as Secretary General in the Department. I know he goes back many years and I wish him the best of luck.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Update on Key Issues: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (24 Jan 2024)

Paul Kehoe: We will give everyone a ten-minute slot and then come back.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Update on Key Issues: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (24 Jan 2024)

Paul Kehoe: We have given the Deputy a good run.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Exemptions (24 Jan 2024)

Paul Kehoe: 93. To ask the Minister for Finance how many farmers were granted VAT exemptions for purchase of fixed equipment between 1 November and 31 December 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3293/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (24 Jan 2024)

Paul Kehoe: 144. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when the arrears of the living alone allowance will be paid to a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3150/24]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Update on Key Issues: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (24 Jan 2024)

Paul Kehoe: Will the Deputy give the Minister at least a minute and half to reply to the outstanding issues she has raised?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Update on Key Issues: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (24 Jan 2024)

Paul Kehoe: I did not want to stop the Senator. She was on a roll.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Update on Key Issues: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (24 Jan 2024)

Paul Kehoe: I know I said to Deputy Clarke that she was before Deputy O'Sullivan. I hope Deputy O'Sullivan does not mind. My apologies if anything has been picked up wrongly.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Update on Key Issues: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (24 Jan 2024)

Paul Kehoe: It is ladies first. Deputy O'Sullivan will speak after that and then Deputy Nolan.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Update on Key Issues: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (24 Jan 2024)

Paul Kehoe: I thank the Deputy and the Minister. I now call Deputy Pádraig O'Sullivan, to be followed by Deputy Nolan.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Update on Key Issues: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (24 Jan 2024)

Paul Kehoe: I thought the Deputy was going to ask about the ministerial suite over in the Department.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Update on Key Issues: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (24 Jan 2024)

Paul Kehoe: I have a small number of questions. Deputy O'Sullivan raised the issue of mental health supports and the recent announcement of the €5 million in supports for students in third level education. Will the Minister comment on that? Will that just sustain the current level of service there or will it increase? He mentioned employing additional counsellors for third level...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Update on Key Issues: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (24 Jan 2024)

Paul Kehoe: Following on from that, I refer to the suicide prevention programme to be fully implemented within tertiary education. Has the Minister any service level agreement with the HSE or the Department of Health regarding the suicide prevention programmes within third level education? There is a responsibility upon the HSE and the Department in this country and unless the Minister has some sort of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Update on Key Issues: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (24 Jan 2024)

Paul Kehoe: Last year, we had an evidence-based session from representative of both the active consent and the bystander intervention programme. There are different challenges for a huge number of students out there but some of the research carried out by the active consent programme in the University of Galway and the Union of Students in Ireland in 2020 has found that 42% of women in the first year of...