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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Business of Joint Committee (7 Dec 2021)

Paul Kehoe: The committee is meeting today in public session on Microsoft Teams. Apologies have been received from Deputy Ó Laoghaire, for whom Deputy Ó Snodaigh will be substituting. Apologies have also been received from Senators Flynn and Pauline O'Reilly and Deputy Pádraig O'Sullivan. Deputy Ó Cathasaigh may be joining us later. Some members are from areas under a status red...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Dec 2021)

Paul Kehoe: On behalf of the committee, I welcome from the Department of Education: Mr. Dalton Tattan, assistant secretary; Ms Anne Tansey, national director of the National Educational Psychological Service, NEPS; and Ms Orlaith O’Connor, assistant chief inspector of schools. I also welcome Mr. Eamonn Moran, Ms Evelyn O’Connor, and Mr. Neville Kenny, all of whom are principal officers in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Dec 2021)

Paul Kehoe: I did not think the Deputy would have learned Latin.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Tests (14 Dec 2021)

Paul Kehoe: 566. To ask the Minister for Health the arrangements that can be put in place to facilitate a person travelling to Ireland on a long-haul journey who will not be in a position to get a PCR test within 72 hours of arriving in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61215/21]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (15 Dec 2021)

Paul Kehoe: There has been much talk in recent weeks about closing schools early because of the concerns relating to Covid and, specifically, the new Omicron surge. I ask the Minister to confirm that schools will remain open until the last day of term, which is in the middle of next week. A significant number of experts have stated in recent weeks that this should be used as a circuit-breaker, but the...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (15 Dec 2021)

Paul Kehoe: When will the Government announce the roll-out of vaccines for five- to 11-year-olds?

Animal Health and Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Instruction to Committee (15 Dec 2021)

Paul Kehoe: I thank Deputy Fitzmaurice for giving me time. I appreciate what the Minister and Minister of State are trying to do here and I welcome the amendments, but this falls far short of what we really need. There is a major crisis within the forestry sector. The chair and the other members of the Joint Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine will agree with me on this point. This is the...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Health and Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (15 Dec 2021)

Paul Kehoe: I will support the amendment. However, I do not believe this will be a silver bullet to meet our target of 8,000 ha per annum. I spoke earlier in the Dáil on this matter. I have a couple of specific questions to put to the Minister. The Social Economic Environmental Forestry Association of Ireland, SEEFA, has voiced concerns around the lack of detail given to the industry...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: An Ghaeilge agus Oideachas lán-Ghaeilge: Plé (23 Nov 2021)

Paul Kehoe: Apologies have been received from Deputies Nolan and Ó Laoghaire. Deputy Ó Laoghaire and Senator O'Loughlin are being substituted respectively by Deputy Ó Snodaigh and Senator Clifford-Lee. I remind members of the constitutional requirement that they must be physically present within the confines of the place Parliament has chosen to sit, namely, Leinster House, to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: An Ghaeilge agus Oideachas lán-Ghaeilge: Plé (23 Nov 2021)

Paul Kehoe: I thank all the witnesses. Our first questioner is Deputy Ó Snodaigh, followed by Senator Mullen. I ask that the members direct their questions to a specific witness, and if a witnesses wants to participate in a reply, he or she can indicate to me and I will let him or her in. We will try to stick to the time limits.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: An Ghaeilge agus Oideachas lán-Ghaeilge: Plé (23 Nov 2021)

Paul Kehoe: We will have to move on from there.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: An Ghaeilge agus Oideachas lán-Ghaeilge: Plé (23 Nov 2021)

Paul Kehoe: I have given the Senator a lot of latitude. I want to be fair to other speakers.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: An Ghaeilge agus Oideachas lán-Ghaeilge: Plé (23 Nov 2021)

Paul Kehoe: I propose that Deputy Ó Cathasaigh take the Chair as I have a vote on the agriculture committee.