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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Nov 2021)
Paul Kehoe: Who wants to take it up?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Nov 2021)
Paul Kehoe: I have a couple of questions and then I will go back to the other members for brief questions. Continuing on from Deputy Pádraig O'Sullivan's question on educational disadvantage, it is a huge issue in Ireland as well as in many other countries. Many children who come from disadvantaged homes do not go on to senior cycle or maybe they go into third year and drop off. Maybe it is...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Nov 2021)
Paul Kehoe: I will ask Dr. Looney to comment on my original question and also the next one. I will ask Professor O'Leary to contribute as well, after Dr. Looney. I like Dr. Looney's language when she said, "cultural obsession". It describes the leaving certificate exactly the way I would. It is an obsession. We knock people's confidence with the present-day leaving certificate. I refer to Deputy...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Nov 2021)
Paul Kehoe: I have another question that perhaps Professor Collins and Dr. Gleeson can comment on, in addition to a question for Professor Stobart. Does either Professor Collins or Dr. Gleeson have an opinion on how we could incorporate the 12-month transition year programme into a leaving certificate final assessment? There is a large number of people doing transition year and there is a significant...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Nov 2021)
Paul Kehoe: In the context of the breadth of subjects available in the leaving certificate, does Professor Stobart consider there to be too many subjects available to students in the Irish system? Can it be said that if there were fewer subjects, there would be less pressure on students doing the leaving certificate?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Nov 2021)
Paul Kehoe: I have a quick question for Professor Hyland. I do not want to be ageist in any way, but she has spoken about her vast years of experience. She compiled a report 30 years ago, and I can quote on that. Are we, in Professor Hyland's opinion, any closer to leaving certificate reform?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Nov 2021)
Paul Kehoe: I have a question for Dr. Looney to do with the NCCA report. I have stated at meetings of the committee, and it is no secret, that I am very disappointed because the Department of Education has the NCCA report for a number of months now. It knows the important job of work we are doing at this committee. All of the members are really committed and have been fantastic in the questions they...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Nov 2021)
Paul Kehoe: What would Professor Looney like to see in the report?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Nov 2021)
Paul Kehoe: I will give each member three minutes and then ask for a very brief reply from the witnesses.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Nov 2021)
Paul Kehoe: Professor Stobart has just left. I will get Deputy Conway-Walsh to get back to him.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Nov 2021)
Paul Kehoe: Deputy Conway-Walsh had a question for Professor Stobart. I will return to him after the other contributors have finished.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Nov 2021)
Paul Kehoe: I have to limit responses to one minute because we have to be out of the committee room by 2 p.m. in order that it can be sanitised before the next meeting.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Nov 2021)
Paul Kehoe: Not at all. That would never happen.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Nov 2021)
Paul Kehoe: Will Professor Stobart make a final comment?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Nov 2021)
Paul Kehoe: I thank Professor Looney, Professor O'Leary, Dr. Gleeson, Dr. Hyland, Professor Collins and Professor Stobart for appearing before the committee. The discussion has been very informative and productive. I thank the witnesses for the exchange of views and for imparting their knowledge, expertise and insights regarding reform of the leaving certificate. It is very much appreciated. This is...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Carbon Sequestration and Storage in Agriculture: Discussion (17 Nov 2021)
Paul Kehoe: I thank the Chair and the witnesses. I have a couple of questions, for whoever wants to take them. What percentage of farmers are actively sampling soil? How is the Department, through farm advisory boards and bodies such as Teagasc, encouraging farmers who are not doing soil sampling to do so? In the same vein as Deputy Carthy was speaking about, I have a question about hedgerows. The...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Carbon Sequestration and Storage in Agriculture: Discussion (17 Nov 2021)
Paul Kehoe: It makes Mr. Callanan's job a bit more difficult. I do not want him to comment on this but I will comment on it as I come from a different side. I speak to farmers on a weekly basis who were considering forestry. I really believe it is a significant missed opportunity for farmers, the Department and the targets it is trying to reach. Is there any species of tree for hedgerows? How do we...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Carbon Sequestration and Storage in Agriculture: Discussion (17 Nov 2021)
Paul Kehoe: Could the witnesses comment on the chopping of straw and the difference that would make to the targets the Department is trying to reach?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Carbon Sequestration and Storage in Agriculture: Discussion (17 Nov 2021)
Paul Kehoe: Straw is quite expensive this year, although I know it will be less expensive in other years. Could the witnesses comment on the return compared to what it is costing the State?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Carbon Sequestration and Storage in Agriculture: Discussion (17 Nov 2021)
Paul Kehoe: I would be thinking the same thing.