Results 1-20 of 134 for going forward speaker:Paul Kehoe

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (30 Nov 2023)

Paul Kehoe: ...has been a change in policy in respect VAT treatment for farmers purchasing fixed equipment for their farm (details supplied); if he will explain the inconsistencies and give a clear direction going forward; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53033/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: General Scheme of the Education (Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse) Bill 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2023)

Paul Kehoe: I have a few questions. I was taken by the witnesses we had in yesterday. As a former Minister of State, I know about negotiations going backwards and forwards. What I got from the meeting was the impact these institutions had on the survivors, and not only on the survivors but on the wider families as well. I am not sure whether Deputy Clarke will agree and Deputy O'Callaghan is gone,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: The Future of STEM in Irish Education: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Mar 2023)

Paul Kehoe: ...the number of apprenticeships it takes? The number of houses is increasing and there is greater demand from ESB Networks. Does Mr. Fitzgerald expect the ESB to increase its apprentice intake going forward?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: The Future of STEM in Irish Education: Discussion (7 Mar 2023)

Paul Kehoe: ...of schools, if there is a young, dynamic teacher leading it, they will get the best out of the transition year students. How best can we use transition year to invest in and promote STEM subjects going forward?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Briefing on Current and Future Plans for the School Building Unit: Department of Education (31 Jan 2023)

Paul Kehoe: I am going to move to another questioner. Mr. Dolan may send a full reply to the clerk and we will forward it to the Senator.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Briefing on Current and Future Plans for the School Building Unit: Department of Education (31 Jan 2023)

Paul Kehoe: ...from, there is a rural school directly outside the town, Bree national school. The population has snowballed in the past number of years. The school got a number of extensions and now it is going again. This will be a considerable challenge for the Department and the building unit going forward. Let me impress upon them the importance of rural primary schools. They are very important...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Briefing on Current and Future Plans for the School Building Unit: Department of Education (31 Jan 2023)

Paul Kehoe: ...is something the committee might look into further. We can seek information about what is happening in the Department in respect of old buildings and new builds. That will be an important issue, going forward, as Mr. Dolan said. Committee members might want to hear more about that. We might invite Mr. Dolan to come back before the committee. The work schedule is in place until the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Referendum Campaigns (22 Nov 2022)

Paul Kehoe: 295. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the proposed timeline going forward for the proposed referendum on housing to take place given the closure of the public consultation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57637/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Issues: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (19 Oct 2022)

Paul Kehoe: I thank the Minister. I know we are all looking forward to the upcoming launch. I have one question for the Minister. I raised this in a parliamentary question to his Department regarding the Marino Institute of Education and he probably knows the question I am going to ask.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Young Social Innovators: Discussion (28 Jun 2022)

Paul Kehoe: I have a couple of questions I would like to put to the witnesses. I will go to the students first and maybe Ms Murphy will come in afterwards. The committee has done a lot of module work on school bullying, including a report the witnesses might have seen, and on leaving certificate reform, as Senator O'Loughlin has mentioned. The issue that came forward in both modules of work was social...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Future Funding of Higher Education: Discussion (22 Feb 2022)

Paul Kehoe: I would be interested in seeing a proposal on that. The committee can look at it if Professor Hegarty would bring something forward. We are interested in anything that would assist students in getting where they want to get in their education. Mr. Miley noted earlier that the report on the future funding of higher education will soon be published. He said that it needs to be ambitious...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (3 Feb 2022)

Paul Kehoe: ...the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a school (details supplied) was not notified of a successful appeal; the options that are available to the school to maximise the use of resources going forward; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5593/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Dec 2021)

Paul Kehoe: ...service is not working. There are waiting lists of long durations. At any politician's clinic there are horrifying stories of what some parents and students in primary and secondary schools are going through. At the previous meeting, the business representative groups stated there is a need for many more graduates with foreign language skills, particularly with Brexit. Language...

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Second Stage (3 Dec 2021)

Paul Kehoe: ...I often question the Residential Tenancies Board and some of its outcomes which have been very unfair on the landlords involved. I am lucky that I own my own house and that in the evening I can go home to my family and I do not have the worry as to when I might get that telephone call and I will be uprooted and have to move. Some families have had to move on several occasions. It is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Carbon Sequestration and Storage in Agriculture: Discussion (17 Nov 2021)

Paul Kehoe: ...doing soil sampling to do so? In the same vein as Deputy Carthy was speaking about, I have a question about hedgerows. The old rural environmental protection scheme, REPS, was set up some years ago and is over now. Is there any agri-environment scheme that should be modelled on that? There was great participation by many farmers. Specifically on the matter of hedgerows, is there any...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion (5 Oct 2021)

Paul Kehoe: ...Leaving aside geography, history and what was known as commerce in my day, does a move to continuous assessment for English, Irish and mathematics constitute reform of the leaving certificate or should we go further? I am aware some of our witnesses do not support a move to continuous assessment as the way forward. I am interested in hearing Mr. Jones's and Ms Ní Chéileachair's...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Reopening of Further and Higher Education Institutions: Discussion (8 Jul 2021)

Paul Kehoe: ...year. I asked him whether he had met many of his colleagues and he replied that he was there for the induction day and had met a small number of people from his class. He said that he was looking forward and could not wait to get to the third level college. He said that he only knows two people with whom he would be quite friendly in the third level institution who were in his class or...