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

Paul Kehoe: I will pick up on something Deputy Conway-Walsh said. I am sorry she has left the room, which has nothing to do with the committee. As for her comments on special education, there has been unprecedented investment into special education over the past ten years. We have increased the number of special needs class spaces and teachers. Places in special classes have increased by more than...

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

Paul Kehoe: I would like to hear the views of Mr. Jones and Ms Ní Chéileachair on continuous assessment for the core subjects. 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...

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

Paul Kehoe: I will move on now to the student representatives. What are the general concerns highlighted to the student unions by students post-leaving certificate? What are the views of, say, the student in his or her early 20s in regard to what transpired with the leaving certificate over the last couple of years and how that impacted on his or her college experience? In regard to students...

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

Paul Kehoe: I have a final question for Ms Ní Chéileachair. In the committee's module on school bullying, one of our recommendations was on the provision of emotional counsellors and therapists in each primary and secondary school. This area is crying out for help. Principals and teachers do not have the expertise to provide emotional counselling and the like for younger students. What are...

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

Paul Kehoe: I thank Ní Chéileachair. I am not sure whether Senator Dolan is on the line. She wanted to ask a further question before we finish. Is the Senator still there?

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

Paul Kehoe: Does Mr. Gillespie wish to respond?

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

Paul Kehoe: I thank the witnesses for attending and sharing their insights and expert knowledge on the issues we have discussed. This discussion has been of considerable assistance to the committee in our examination of the reform of the leaving certificate. I sincerely apologise for the technical issues. They were beyond my control and that of the clerk, the assistant clerk and the other officials...

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

Paul Kehoe: No. Has Mr. Gillespie got these committee proceedings live on another screen in the background or anything like that? He might try to come in again.

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

Paul Kehoe: Unfortunately, the Senator's time is up.

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

Paul Kehoe: I have nightmares about my leaving certificate examination and even worse nightmares about Peig and her struggles. My struggles were far greater than hers when I was studying "Peig". A large majority of students struggle with Irish. Left to their own free will, they would not choose it as one of their core subjects. However, it is one of our core subjects and I believe every student...

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

Paul Kehoe: I thank the Senator for that. Does anyone wish to reply to her before we finish?

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Pension Provisions (12 Oct 2021)

Paul Kehoe: 138. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will consider an increase for the D1 stamp fixed pension recipients; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49341/21]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Risk Management (12 Oct 2021)

Paul Kehoe: 139. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the way flood that risk maps are created; the way a person who is of the view that their area has incorrectly been included in a flood risk area can query this with the possibility of being removed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49360/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (12 Oct 2021)

Paul Kehoe: 250. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is considering returning school transport to full capacity; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49159/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Domestic Violence (12 Oct 2021)

Paul Kehoe: 435. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of the new strategy on domestic, sexual and gender-based violence; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49392/21]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Departmental Inquiries (13 Oct 2021)

Paul Kehoe: 118. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the status of an application by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49986/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (13 Oct 2021)

Paul Kehoe: 148. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason the working family payment for a person (details supplied) was refused; if they are being penalised due to their pandemic unemployment payment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49987/21]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Sports Funding (14 Oct 2021)

Paul Kehoe: 105. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when the next round of sports capital grant scheme funding will be announced; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50338/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (14 Oct 2021)

Paul Kehoe: 128. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the plans in place to transfer funding for an organisation (details supplied) to the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50343/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (14 Oct 2021)

Paul Kehoe: 129. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an educational institute (details supplied) is under her Department's remit; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50344/21]