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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion with School Management Bodies (28 Sep 2021)
Paul Kehoe: You have a minute left, Senator. I am being generous. Go ahead if you like, Mr. Crone.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion with School Management Bodies (28 Sep 2021)
Paul Kehoe: Mr. Curtis, if you could hold for a second, I will get them to turn up the volume here on this end. There are some technical issues on this side here. I apologise to the witnesses. I am sorry about this. I ask Mr. Curtis to proceed, take two.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion with School Management Bodies (28 Sep 2021)
Paul Kehoe: I ask that Mr. Curtis keep his reply to Senator Byrne brief because we have gone over the allocated six minutes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion with School Management Bodies (28 Sep 2021)
Paul Kehoe: Next is Deputy Conway-Walsh, who was in the Chamber earlier to ask a question, followed by Senator Mullen.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion with School Management Bodies (28 Sep 2021)
Paul Kehoe: My apologies to Mr. Curtis, but I am going to have to interrupt. He may continue his contribution at the end of the meeting. He may not get into trouble but I will get into trouble for allowing-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion with School Management Bodies (28 Sep 2021)
Paul Kehoe: The next question is from Senator O'Reilly. She will be followed by Deputy Jim O'Callaghan. I call Senator O'Reilly. As the Senator is not available, I will move to Deputy Jim O'Callaghan.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion with School Management Bodies (28 Sep 2021)
Paul Kehoe: I thank the witnesses for those responses. The next questioner is Deputy Ó Cathasaigh to be followed by Deputy Pádraig O'Sullivan.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion with School Management Bodies (28 Sep 2021)
Paul Kehoe: I will let the other witnesses come back in at the end of the meeting as we have gone over time for this slot. I call Deputy Pádraig O'Sullivan.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion with School Management Bodies (28 Sep 2021)
Paul Kehoe: Thank you. I have a couple of questions before I go back to the other speakers. In all of this debate on the reform of the leaving certificate, the most important people we have to take into account are the students as it is about what they want. From the witnesses’ experience, what do they think the students want out of a reformed leaving certificate? Mr. Crone said that those on...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion with School Management Bodies (28 Sep 2021)
Paul Kehoe: Deputies Ó Cathasaigh and Pádraig O'Sullivan want to come back in.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion with School Management Bodies (28 Sep 2021)
Paul Kehoe: I do not want to be bold but I do not believe the Deputy is on the precincts of Leinster House.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion with School Management Bodies (28 Sep 2021)
Paul Kehoe: I will not be able to allow you in when you are not on the precincts. I have to be fair because I stopped a member a number of months ago. I want to be fair to everybody. My apologies. I do not make up the rules. I am only going by them.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion with School Management Bodies (28 Sep 2021)
Paul Kehoe: No bother.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion with School Management Bodies (28 Sep 2021)
Paul Kehoe: I was not aware of the University of Limerick, UL, carrying out that work. There might be merit in the committee inviting UL representatives in to see what lessons the university has learned from the reform, even though it has nothing to do with the leaving certificate, although, in a sense, it does. The two play into one another.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion with School Management Bodies (28 Sep 2021)
Paul Kehoe: I will come in on what Mr. Irwin said about the media and league tables of the third level colleges students go to. That frustrates me so much because it undervalues people and says they only did an apprenticeship and are only a plumber, painter, electrician or whatever. On occasions, these electricians and plumbers are making an awful lot more money than the guys who went to college for...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion with School Management Bodies (28 Sep 2021)
Paul Kehoe: I will ask Mr. Flood to conclude there. We will have guidance counsellors coming before the committee at a later date. I will finish with these questions. Does Mr. Curtis believe there is a willingness and an appetite for reform of the leaving certificate with the Minister for Education and within the Department of Education post Covid-19 and what we have learned from it? There is no...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion with School Management Bodies (28 Sep 2021)
Paul Kehoe: Yes, within two minutes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion with School Management Bodies (28 Sep 2021)
Paul Kehoe: Mr. Irwin may have one minute to respond, and then Mr. Flood may have one minute.
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Council of Ireland (30 Sep 2021)
Paul Kehoe: 264. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of applications pending for registration with the Teaching Council; the number of unqualified teachers who were paid by her Department at primary and secondary level in recent weeks; if credit scores regarding degrees only apply to graduates post-2005; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47368/21]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Council of Ireland (30 Sep 2021)
Paul Kehoe: 265. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an application for registration with the Teaching Council by a person (details supplied); when a final decision can be expected on same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47369/21]