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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion (19 Oct 2021)

Paul Kehoe: I will allow the Senator another minute or two.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion (19 Oct 2021)

Paul Kehoe: I would say there is more money in fabrication.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion (19 Oct 2021)

Paul Kehoe: I thank Mr. Whyte. I call Senator Pauline O’Reilly.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion (19 Oct 2021)

Paul Kehoe: We can all talk about reform but there has to be an appetite for that. Do the witnesses feel the Department of Education has the appetite for real reform and will do the reform needed? We are now post Covid. Over the past 18 months, everybody spoke about the leaving certificate needing reform. I do not think the appetite is there in the Department of Education and I am disappointed in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion (19 Oct 2021)

Paul Kehoe: I will take up the point Dr. Ryan mentioned. There were two issues I wanted to look at as Chair of the committee, namely, school bullying and leaving certificate reform. That was because of my experiences in both of them. I was taken by a point from Deputy Ó Ríordáin on people approaching the leaving certificate and being afraid. I would say 75% or 80% of students...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion (19 Oct 2021)

Paul Kehoe: To go back to my original question, when a Minister or officials in a Department are asked to review something, they all come out in cold sweats. I am a former Minister and, as Mr. Miley said, one never knows what it is going to throw up. There has to be an appetite. I am a little disappointed that the Minister, Deputy Foley, did not put it as a priority when she was appointed because a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion (19 Oct 2021)

Paul Kehoe: I thank Mr. Miley, Dr. Ryan, Professor Hegarty and Mr. Whyte for attending today's meeting. The discussion today has been very productive. I commend all our witnesses on their very forthright views. I know that today's work will be part and parcel of our report on leaving certificate reform. I know a number of the witnesses have appeared before the committee over the past number of months...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion (19 Oct 2021)

Paul Kehoe: Senator, is that okay with you?

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Disability Services (21 Oct 2021)

Paul Kehoe: 204. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the plans that are in place to provide additional respite beds or houses for persons with a disability in Enniscorthy and throughout County Wexford; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51877/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (21 Oct 2021)

Paul Kehoe: 336. To ask the Minister for Health the plans that are in place to provide additional respite beds or houses for persons with a disability in Enniscorthy and throughout County Wexford; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51876/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (21 Oct 2021)

Paul Kehoe: 337. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider permitting a vaccine certificate to be issued to a person who has tested positive for Covid-19 antibodies but does not have a specific positive test result; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51879/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (21 Oct 2021)

Paul Kehoe: 362. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of approvals per licence and scheme type the Forestry Service will deliver during 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51872/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (21 Oct 2021)

Paul Kehoe: 363. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the estimated number of applications per licence and scheme type the Forestry Service anticipates receiving during 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51874/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (19 Oct 2021)

Paul Kehoe: 769. To ask the Minister for Health when the necessary statutory instrument will be put in place under the Regulated Professions (Health and Social Care) (Amendment) Act 2020 which will enable the Medical Council to address the outstanding issues relating to the inclusion of medical consultants many of whom are consultants for more than ten years to be included on the specialist register; and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Bullying in Educational Institutions (2 Nov 2021)

Paul Kehoe: 492. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the work currently being undertaken to update the Action Plan on Bullying and the related Anti-Bullying Procedures for primary and post- primary schools which have not been updated since 2013; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52337/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Bullying in Educational Institutions (2 Nov 2021)

Paul Kehoe: 493. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the establishment of a national system for the reporting of data on individual bullying cases and their causes; the steps taken to address them and the outcomes of these interventions that are currently being collected by schools and reported to their boards of management; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52338/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Ministerial Staff (2 Nov 2021)

Paul Kehoe: 710. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if a review will be undertaken of arrangements for ministerial security (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51990/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Assisted Human Reproduction (2 Nov 2021)

Paul Kehoe: 928. To ask the Minister for Health if the Assisted Human Reproduction Bill will legislate for international surrogacy; if not, the rationale for excluding same; when it is expected to be legislated for; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52495/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (2 Nov 2021)

Paul Kehoe: 922. To ask the Minister for Health the additional steps that are being taken to clear the waiting list for dental surgery for children with complex needs who have been referred to the dental hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52478/21]