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Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 26 — Education (Revised)
Vote 45 — Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Revised) (23 Mar 2021)

Paul Kehoe: I thank the Minister. The next speaker is Deputy Jim O'Callaghan. He will be followed by Deputy Conway-Walsh, who is taking Deputy Ó Laoghaire's slot.

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 26 — Education (Revised)
Vote 45 — Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Revised) (23 Mar 2021)

Paul Kehoe: The next speaker is Deputy Conway Walsh, who is taking Deputy Ó Laoghaoire's place, and she has four minutes.

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 26 — Education (Revised)
Vote 45 — Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Revised) (23 Mar 2021)

Paul Kehoe: I must interrupt the Minister. I advise Deputy Conway-Walsh there are five minutes remaining and I want to take my speaking slot as we missed a Fine Gael slot. Deputy Farrell did not take up his speaking slot and I did not take his speaking time. Deputy Conway-Walsh has got in twice. I want to ask a few questions in the five minutes remaining. I apologise for cutting across the Minister...

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 26 — Education (Revised)
Vote 45 — Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Revised) (23 Mar 2021)

Paul Kehoe: It is not clear how the digital funding is apportioned within schools. There does not seems to be a way of measuring how it is utilised in individual schools. Recommendation 5 of the report on the Impact of Covid-19 on Primary and Secondary Education states there should be a national online learning programme that guarantees all students have access to a digital device and broadband. Do...

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 26 — Education (Revised)
Vote 45 — Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Revised) (23 Mar 2021)

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Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 26 — Education (Revised)
Vote 45 — Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Revised) (23 Mar 2021)

Paul Kehoe: On the upcoming budget, I remind the Minister of an issue I raised with her and her officials previously concerning the deputy principal positions in larger primary schools. I ask her to keep that on her radar. What interaction has the Minister had with the teacher associations since schools reopened in recent weeks? Separately, what interaction have her officials had with the teacher...

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 26 — Education (Revised)
Vote 45 — Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Revised) (23 Mar 2021)

Paul Kehoe: Deputy Conway-Walsh asked the Minister about the number of students in schools who were affected by Covid-19. She may not have the figure but how many schools, primary, post-primary and special schools, have been affected by outbreaks of Covid-19 since schools reopened in recent weeks? I am asking for the number of schools rather than the number of students. If the Minister does not have...

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 26 — Education (Revised)
Vote 45 — Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Revised) (23 Mar 2021)

Paul Kehoe: If the Minister were to give a message to parents on guaranteeing that schools will remain open, what would that message be? This is a serious issue in the community. Transmission is not occurring in schools but in the community. There is a responsibility on every citizen of the State and parents of children going to school to make sure schools are a safe environment for their students....

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 26 — Education (Revised)
Vote 45 — Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Revised) (23 Mar 2021)

Paul Kehoe: I do not want an answer but I repeat what Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin said. There are students who are in a difficult situation when they return to school. Regardless of their background, there are students who are suffering. I ask the Minister and her officials to be conscious of that. I thank the Minister, Deputy Foley, and the Minister of State, Deputy Madigan, for...

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 26 — Education (Revised)
Vote 45 — Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Revised) (23 Mar 2021)

Paul Kehoe: We will suspend briefly to allow the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, Deputy Simon Harris, the Minister of State in his Department, Deputy Niall Collins, and their officials to joint the meeting remotely.

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 26 — Education (Revised)
Vote 45 — Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Revised) (23 Mar 2021)

Paul Kehoe: I welcome the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, Deputy Simon Harris. I also welcome the Minister of State with responsibility for skills and further education, Deputy Niall Collins, and the officials. I thank them for the briefing documents they provided to the committee prior to the meeting. I will now ask the Minister, Deputy Harris, to make his...

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 26 — Education (Revised)
Vote 45 — Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Revised) (23 Mar 2021)

Paul Kehoe: I thank the Minister. The next speaker was to be Deputy Farrell but he had to attend another meeting. Next is Deputy O'Sullivan.

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 26 — Education (Revised)
Vote 45 — Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Revised) (23 Mar 2021)

Paul Kehoe: Deputy Conway-Walsh is taking Deputy Ó Laoghaire's slot.

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 26 — Education (Revised)
Vote 45 — Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Revised) (23 Mar 2021)

Paul Kehoe: Unfortunately, we cannot allow Deputy Ó Laoghaire to contribute because he is not on the Leinster House campus. I apologise to him.

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 26 — Education (Revised)
Vote 45 — Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Revised) (23 Mar 2021)

Paul Kehoe: Will the Minister provide an update on the Wexford campus and the TU application for the south east? Deputy Ó Cathasaigh posed a similar question but I wish to ask about the provision in the Revised Estimates for the increase in funding that will be required for the establishment of the new TUs. Is the Minister considering the enactment of legislation to give the TUs the same borrowing...

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 26 — Education (Revised)
Vote 45 — Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Revised) (23 Mar 2021)

Paul Kehoe: I thank the Minister. Every Deputy in the south east signed the letter bar one. I thank all Deputies and Senators who signed that letter in favour of the TU for the south east. I was disappointed that there was a Deputy from Waterford who did not sign it. It says a lot about his willingness to have a TU in the south east for the students. This is about students in the south east and we...

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 26 — Education (Revised)
Vote 45 — Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Revised) (23 Mar 2021)

Paul Kehoe: I thank the Minister of State. I commend both Ministers on their work with the hospitality sector. It is an important sector if we are to have a recovering economy post Covid-19. The sector is appreciative of the Ministers' work with it. I ask the Ministers to continue that good work and engagement with the sector. Does any other Deputy want to come in before we conclude the our...

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 26 — Education (Revised)
Vote 45 — Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Revised) (23 Mar 2021)

Paul Kehoe: Yes.

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 26 — Education (Revised)
Vote 45 — Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Revised) (23 Mar 2021)

Paul Kehoe: Would Deputy Ó Cathasaigh like to come in again? We had to rush through his questions earlier.

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 26 — Education (Revised)
Vote 45 — Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Revised) (23 Mar 2021)

Paul Kehoe: That concludes our consideration of the Revised Estimates. I thank the Minister, the Minister of State and their officials for their very constructive engagement today.