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Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 26 - Education (Revised)
Vote 45 - Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Revised) (10 Feb 2022)

Paul Kehoe: Does the Deputy have any other questions?

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 26 - Education (Revised)
Vote 45 - Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Revised) (10 Feb 2022)

Paul Kehoe: In years gone by, home economics was a subject mainly for females. Society has changed and males must now take a more proactive role in the home. Are there plans to make home economics a mandatory subject for male and female students in secondary schools? Has the Minister or her Department given this any thought? This will be important from the perspective of obesity because home...

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 26 - Education (Revised)
Vote 45 - Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Revised) (10 Feb 2022)

Paul Kehoe: I believe it should be administered within the Department of Education. I am not sure if the Minister for Social Protection, Deputy Humphreys, would agree with me, but sin scéal eile. It is a very strange fit for a programme which deals with primary and post-primary schools to be based in the Department of Social Protection. I may have been in government when it was put in there, but...

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 26 - Education (Revised)
Vote 45 - Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Revised) (10 Feb 2022)

Paul Kehoe: Yes.

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 26 - Education (Revised)
Vote 45 - Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Revised) (10 Feb 2022)

Paul Kehoe: I would like to thank the Minister, Deputy Foley, and Minister of State, Deputy Madigan and their officials for their constructive engagement with the committee today. We will now suspend briefly to prepare for part two of the meeting and allow the Minister of State, Deputy Collins and his officials to take their seats.

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 26 - Education (Revised)
Vote 45 - Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Revised) (10 Feb 2022)

Paul Kehoe: I would like to welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Collins and his officials from the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science to the meeting. I would also like to thank him for the briefing documents he provided to this meeting and for his flexibility in waiting and coming in after the Minister for Education. I will ask the Minister of State, Deputy...

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 26 - Education (Revised)
Vote 45 - Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Revised) (10 Feb 2022)

Paul Kehoe: Does the Deputy have a number of questions she wishes to put to the Minister of State together or would she like to go back and forth?

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 26 - Education (Revised)
Vote 45 - Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Revised) (10 Feb 2022)

Paul Kehoe: I have one question and then I will allow both Deputies in for two or three minutes before we wrap up. Is there a provision in the Estimates for an increase in funding for the establishment of further technological universities? The technological university in the south east will be coming up soon. I presume there will be provision for that.

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 26 - Education (Revised)
Vote 45 - Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Revised) (10 Feb 2022)

Paul Kehoe: Have the Minister of State, the Minister, Deputy Harris, or their officials had consultations with the Minister for Finance with a view to ending the prohibition on technological universities borrowing in the same way as other universities? Does the Minister of State accept that the current situation unfairly disadvantages technological universities and that there should be a level playing...

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 26 - Education (Revised)
Vote 45 - Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Revised) (10 Feb 2022)

Paul Kehoe: I thank the Minister of State, Deputy Niall Collins, and his officials for their constructive engagement in this meeting. That concludes the consideration of the Revised Estimates for Votes 26 and 45.

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Message to Dáil (10 Feb 2022)

Paul Kehoe: In accordance with Standing Order 101, the following message will be sent to the Dáil: The Select Committee on Education, Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science has completed its consideration of the following Revised Estimates for public services for the year ending 31 December 2022: Vote 26 - Education; and Vote 45 - Further and Higher Education, Research,...

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 26 - Education (Revised)
Vote 45 - Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Revised) (10 Feb 2022)

Paul Kehoe: Is the Minister talking about weeks or months?

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 26 - Education (Revised)
Vote 45 - Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Revised) (10 Feb 2022)

Paul Kehoe: In fairness to all of the members and the staff here, we have done a huge amount of work on the leaving certificate review. An important cog in this work is to have the representatives of the NCCA in to discuss the report.

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (15 Feb 2022)

Paul Kehoe: 84. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on the implementation of the 2019 Agreement on Contractual Reform and Service Development for General Practice; the additional investment per annum this will enable by Government; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7968/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (15 Feb 2022)

Paul Kehoe: 127. To ask the Minister for Health the number of Covid-19 vaccines that have been administered in pharmacies in each county in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7989/22]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Electric Vehicles (15 Feb 2022)

Paul Kehoe: 190. To ask the Taoiseach the number of electric vehicle charging points that are available for use by staff across all carparks provided for use by his Department throughout the country. [7374/22]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Grant Payments (15 Feb 2022)

Paul Kehoe: 330. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if grant funding is available through her Department that would assist in the purchase of replica uniforms for a community-based historical re-enactment society; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7803/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (15 Feb 2022)

Paul Kehoe: 477. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a special class (details supplied) is not being sanctioned by a SENO despite additional accommodation funding being awarded for the class; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8408/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (15 Feb 2022)

Paul Kehoe: 486. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an application for a disability allowance for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7517/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (15 Feb 2022)

Paul Kehoe: 487. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) was refused a pension; if an appeal process is available in this case; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7518/22]