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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Impact of Covid-19 on Reopening of Schools and State Examinations: Update (2 Mar 2021)

Paul Kehoe: As Chair of the committee, I speak on behalf of all members when I say we will look for co-operation from the Minister's officials when we ask them to come before us as witnesses when we are carrying out the review. On leaving certificate 2021, what provisions have the Minister and her Department made for students who are sitting the leaving certificate but cannot continue doing so because...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Impact of Covid-19 on Reopening of Schools and State Examinations: Update (2 Mar 2021)

Paul Kehoe: A report on Covid referred to ventilation in schools. What is the up-to-date position on that? Some schools have said they should have ventilation. It is up to individual schools and teachers to open or close windows, but there are no ventilation monitors. We have received correspondence from quite a number of companies which said ventilation systems can be installed quite easily. I am...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Impact of Covid-19 on Reopening of Schools and State Examinations: Update (2 Mar 2021)

Paul Kehoe: I will allow members in for one minute. I ask the Minister to correspond with the secretariat to provide a full reply.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Impact of Covid-19 on Reopening of Schools and State Examinations: Update (2 Mar 2021)

Paul Kehoe: I call Deputy Farrell.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Impact of Covid-19 on Reopening of Schools and State Examinations: Update (2 Mar 2021)

Paul Kehoe: I thank the Senator. We are under time pressures. Senator Dolan has one minute.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Impact of Covid-19 on Reopening of Schools and State Examinations: Update (2 Mar 2021)

Paul Kehoe: I call Deputy Conway-Walsh.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Impact of Covid-19 on Reopening of Schools and State Examinations: Update (2 Mar 2021)

Paul Kehoe: I call Deputy Ó'Laoghaire.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Impact of Covid-19 on Reopening of Schools and State Examinations: Update (2 Mar 2021)

Paul Kehoe: Is Senator O'Loughlin there? No. Senators Mullen and Flynn and Deputies Nolan, Jim O'Callaghan and Pádraig O'Sullivan have also left. I want to thank the Minister and the Minister of State and their officials for coming before us virtually today. I ask both Ministers to give a written reply to the questions that were asked late through the secretariat, which we can pass on to the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Impact of Covid-19 on Reopening of Schools and State Examinations: Update (2 Mar 2021)

Paul Kehoe: I thank all witness, officials and members.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Covid-19 Pandemic (3 Mar 2021)

Paul Kehoe: 100. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if guidance for driving instructors and a timeframe for return to driver lessons will be included in the new living with Covid framework; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10959/21]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (3 Mar 2021)

Paul Kehoe: 257. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the reason County Wexford has been excluded from the grant scheme for outdoor dining infrastructure; and if she will consider expanding the scheme to include County Wexford. [10986/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Rates (3 Mar 2021)

Paul Kehoe: 352. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason boarding kennels (details supplied) were not included in the commercial rates waiver; if steps will be made to include them due to the same decimation of their business as those included in the waiver; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12015/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (3 Mar 2021)

Paul Kehoe: 501. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there will be a review of the prohibition on persons over 70 years of age driving school buses; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12003/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (3 Mar 2021)

Paul Kehoe: 564. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) was refused an application under the new benefit payment for 65-year-olds; the options available to them at this time; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12020/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health and Social Care Professionals (3 Mar 2021)

Paul Kehoe: 897. To ask the Minister for Health when the necessary statutory instrument will be put in place to enable the Medical Council to address the outstanding issues relating to the inclusion of medical consultants on the specialist register; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11723/21]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Information and Communications Technology (4 Mar 2021)

Paul Kehoe: 51. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if State bodies can now make greater use of commercial cloud computing in delivering public services including in cases involving the processing, hosting or storing of personal information in view of his comments welcoming the publication of the Office of Government Procurement guidance note on cloud services and in order to support...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Redundancy Payments (4 Mar 2021)

Paul Kehoe: 153. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the amount that has been paid into the social fund from employers who have made employees redundant in each of the years 2010 to 2020; the amount in cases in which the State had to pay for each of the years; the number of family homes on which a charge is being placed or executed each year; and if she will make a statement...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Eradication of Bovine Tuberculosis: Discussion (9 Mar 2021)

Paul Kehoe: First, the Irish Creamery Milk Suppliers Association, ICMSA, Macra na Feirme and the Irish Farmers Association, IFA, representatives are very welcome. I will ask each of the presidents to answer this specific question first. Have the three farming organisations got common ground and a common approach in eradicating TB, specifically around the ongoing negotiations with the Department of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Eradication of Bovine Tuberculosis: Discussion (9 Mar 2021)

Paul Kehoe: My apologies.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Eradication of Bovine Tuberculosis: Discussion (9 Mar 2021)

Paul Kehoe: I welcome the witnesses. I have three brief questions. Something I come across quite regularly, and which the farming organisations have brought up, is the financial burden on younger farmers. Younger farmers have left the agricultural industry because of being locked up with TB and the consequences of same. I am from County Wexford and one of the main issues I bring to witnesses...