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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Nov 2021)

Paul Kehoe: Today we will continue our discussion on leaving certificate reform with reference to higher and further education requirements, vocational options and career paths. I will invite the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, Deputy Harris, to make an opening statement This will be followed by opening statements from Dr. John O' Connor from Quality and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Nov 2021)

Paul Kehoe: Thank you very much, Dr. O'Connor. I call Mr. Conlon, who is joining us remotely.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Nov 2021)

Paul Kehoe: I thank Mr. Brownlee and the other contributors for their opening statements. Deputy Conway-Walsh has an eight-minute slot to ask questions and receive replies from the witnesses. If she directs her questions to particular witnesses, we will get through it more easily.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Nov 2021)

Paul Kehoe: We will give the Minister two or three minutes and then we will ask one or two of the witnesses to make a quick comment.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Nov 2021)

Paul Kehoe: I thank Mr. Brownlee. The next speaker is Senator Malcolm Byrne, followed by Deputy Jim O'Callaghan.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Nov 2021)

Paul Kehoe: There are approximately four minutes left in this slot for responses. I ask the Minister to respond first, following which I will call the witnesses.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Nov 2021)

Paul Kehoe: I will give Mr. Conlon less than a minute just to respond.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Nov 2021)

Paul Kehoe: Mr. Conlon was going to revert to Deputy Jim O'Callaghan with some information, but if he could revert to the clerk, the clerk will pass it on to all members of the committee.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Nov 2021)

Paul Kehoe: In the last couple of days, a guidance counsellor told me a story about the son of two professional parents. The son decided he wanted to become a plumber. The professional parents nearly had a conniption, because he was not going to get a professional job and that he was going get hands dirty. They decided to go to the guidance counsellor to try change his mind and that he would go to a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Nov 2021)

Paul Kehoe: I call Senator Pauline O'Reilly and ask her to direct her questions to the Minister, Deputy Harris first because he has less than five minutes left.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Nov 2021)

Paul Kehoe: Does Deputy Pádraig O'Sullivan have a specific question? I will then go back to Senator O'Reilly. I know she will not mind.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Nov 2021)

Paul Kehoe: The Minister is excused. I thank him for appearing before us today. We will go back to Senator Pauline O'Reilly now and then to Deputy Christopher O'Sullivan.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Nov 2021)

Paul Kehoe: I thank everyone for coming here today. The discussion has been very productive. I commend the witnesses on their hard work and commitment in developing further and higher education. I thank Dr. O'Connor, Mr. Conlon, Mr. Brownlee and the Minister, Deputy Harris, for their contributions. I also thank the members.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Electric Vehicles (3 Nov 2021)

Paul Kehoe: 75. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the rationale behind the removal of SEAI grants for plug-in hybrid electric vehicles; the measures that will be put in place to counteract the removal and continue to encourage the purchase of electric vehicles; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53443/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Revenue Commissioners (3 Nov 2021)

Paul Kehoe: 91. To ask the Minister for Finance if his Department is taking steps to improve access to the Revenue Commissioner phone lines for persons who either are not capable of managing their tax affairs online or for those who have complex issues that require a detailed conversation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53627/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Funding (4 Nov 2021)

Paul Kehoe: 301. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when an organisation (details supplied) will receive requested documents; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53918/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes (4 Nov 2021)

Paul Kehoe: 310. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the position regarding community employment supervisor pensions; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53921/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Strategies (4 Nov 2021)

Paul Kehoe: 376. To ask the Minister for Health his plans for the publication of the national stroke strategy with a properly funded implementation plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53927/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (4 Nov 2021)

Paul Kehoe: 390. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of ecologists involved in processing the nine afforestation licences issued for week four of the October 2021 dashboard; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53877/21]