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Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Ukraine War (5 Jul 2022)

Paul Kehoe: 912. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the options for funding that are available to an organisation established to respond to the arrival of Ukrainian refugees given that it has been deemed not eligible to apply through the Ireland for Ukraine fund due to it only being established in 2022; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35801/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (7 Jul 2022)

Paul Kehoe: 307. To ask the Minister for Health the number and the grade of former employees of the Health Service Executive who were facilitated in retiring with the benefit of the enhanced abolition of office terms following the re-structuring of the Health Service Executive for the period 2005 to 2009, inclusive; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36827/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (7 Jul 2022)

Paul Kehoe: 312. To ask the Minister for Health when the Action Plan for Disability Capacity Review will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36847/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (7 Jul 2022)

Paul Kehoe: 341. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if any of the frost reconstitution applications lodged with his Department have been processed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36905/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (7 Jul 2022)

Paul Kehoe: 342. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the actual output in the current forestry programme per measure and per year since its inception in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36906/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (7 Jul 2022)

Paul Kehoe: 343. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the specific incentives that his Department will include within the revised Cap Strategic Plan draft to promote afforestation within the next Common Agricultural Policy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36907/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (7 Jul 2022)

Paul Kehoe: 344. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the annual area of afforestation required to reach climate change objectives by 2050; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36908/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (7 Jul 2022)

Paul Kehoe: 345. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the processing and issuing of licence and scheme approvals for the month of June 2022 is in line with his Department's phased plan for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36909/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Young Social Innovators: Discussion (28 Jun 2022)

Paul Kehoe: I remind members to ensure that their mobile phones are switched off for the duration of the meeting because they interfere with the broadcasting equipment of the House, even when in silent mode. The draft minutes of the meeting of 21 June have been circulated. Are the minutes agreed to? Agreed. I wish to advise members that at 1 p.m. the select committee will discuss a Bill. The...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Young Social Innovators: Discussion (28 Jun 2022)

Paul Kehoe: I thank Ms Collier. The rest of her statement will be published on the committee website. I now call on Mr. Rawson and Ms Sheppard to make some opening remarks.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Young Social Innovators: Discussion (28 Jun 2022)

Paul Kehoe: I thank our guests for their presentations. Before opening the floor to members, I welcome the other students in the Public Gallery - Mr. Adam Jordan, Ms Molly Hynes and Ms Chloe Cullen - as well as their principal, Ms Linda Dunne, and Ms Hannah Mulroe. It is important that we hear student voices at this committee, and Ms Karen Murphy is a teacher in Carnew. It is important that youths...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Young Social Innovators: Discussion (28 Jun 2022)

Paul Kehoe: Does anybody else want to add to that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Young Social Innovators: Discussion (28 Jun 2022)

Paul Kehoe: The Senator came to me looking to go earlier and I said I would let her do so.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Young Social Innovators: Discussion (28 Jun 2022)

Paul Kehoe: I will get both Senator Pauline O'Reilly and Senator Flynn to ask their questions and I will make sure that a comprehensive reply is sent to both of them.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Young Social Innovators: Discussion (28 Jun 2022)

Paul Kehoe: Does anybody want to comment on what Senator said?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Young Social Innovators: Discussion (28 Jun 2022)

Paul Kehoe: I have a couple of questions I would like to put to the witnesses. I will go to the students first and maybe Ms Murphy will come in afterwards. The committee has done a lot of module work on school bullying, including a report the witnesses might have seen, and on leaving certificate reform, as Senator O'Loughlin has mentioned. The issue that came forward in both modules of work was social...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Young Social Innovators: Discussion (28 Jun 2022)

Paul Kehoe: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Young Social Innovators: Discussion (28 Jun 2022)

Paul Kehoe: Does Ms Sheppard believe it comes down to the student having the confidence to seek help? Alternatively, is it that the student believes he or she is too big and a macho man – I am not sure what the equivalent term is for women – and does not need help? Is it down to confidence or is it because of peer pressure? Are students worried about what their peers will think of them...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Young Social Innovators: Discussion (28 Jun 2022)

Paul Kehoe: One of the recommendations of the report on school bullying was that there should be a therapeutic counsellor on-site in schools to help students. I have spoken to the INTO on this and in recent days I spoke to the clerk to the committee on it as well. There is a programme running in the south of the UK. I hope the committee will discuss this in September and visit the UK to look at the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Young Social Innovators: Discussion (28 Jun 2022)

Paul Kehoe: A cohort of students was very much involved in the programme and the research, but in the wider school from first year up, did students take an interest in what was being done, over time? Did they come to the researchers with ideas? Did the researchers seek their opinions? Was research done by a questionnaire in the school?