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Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (14 Jul 2022)

Paul Kehoe: 701. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the shortage of over 65 Covid-19 second booster appointments in County Wexford; the plans that are in place to increase the number of clinics and appointments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38928/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Ireland Prison Education Strategy 2019-2022: Discussion (5 Jul 2022)

Paul Kehoe: On behalf of the committee, I welcome Ms Caron McCaffrey, director general, and Mr. Fergal Black, director of care and rehabilitation, Irish Prison Service, and Mr. Stephen O'Connor, organiser, City of Dublin Education and Training Board educational service to prisons, Mountjoy Prison, and Ms Lorraine Higgins, assistant principal, Cork Education and Training Board education service to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Ireland Prison Education Strategy 2019-2022: Discussion (5 Jul 2022)

Paul Kehoe: If only I was playing.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Ireland Prison Education Strategy 2019-2022: Discussion (5 Jul 2022)

Paul Kehoe: I will ask a few questions before going back to members. Do the witnesses have any data on the benefits of education in bringing about improved behaviour? When prisoners go back into the community do they continue their education? All of us in our lives, not only prisoners, have a light-bulb moment. It is like lecturing a son or daughter. Eventually they will have a light-bulb moment and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Ireland Prison Education Strategy 2019-2022: Discussion (5 Jul 2022)

Paul Kehoe: A prisoner might be completing the leaving certificate. What provisions are put in place for this? Someone in third level education could get a two- or three-year sentence, perhaps for drug offences. Students who leave home and go out into the wild can, all of a sudden, find themselves in prison for two or three years. They could have been halfway through first or second year in college....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Ireland Prison Education Strategy 2019-2022: Discussion (5 Jul 2022)

Paul Kehoe: There is an opportunity to further this with other third level colleges. I know of examples in my constituency where people aged 19 or 20 go from living with their parents to being out. All of a sudden they get involved in drugs and a bad group and end up in prison. That could be for six months, 12 months, 18 months or two years. I believe those people will make progress and while they...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Ireland Prison Education Strategy 2019-2022: Discussion (5 Jul 2022)

Paul Kehoe: I have one last question before I go back to Deputy Conway Walsh and then Senator Flynn. Is there any European country or colleagues in Europe, the UK or further afield with the absolute perfect model that the witnesses would like to see us aiming towards?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Ireland Prison Education Strategy 2019-2022: Discussion (5 Jul 2022)

Paul Kehoe: I ask the witnesses to answer within the time provided as we have another group to come before the committee.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Ireland Prison Education Strategy 2019-2022: Discussion (5 Jul 2022)

Paul Kehoe: I thank the witnesses for coming before us today. The discussion has been productive. I hope it will benefit both committee members and the witnesses, having heard members' views. I admire their passion for the work they do daily, the goals they want to reach and the journey they want to take. If the committee can be of any assistance, please do not hesitate to contact me or any member....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Ireland Prison Education Strategy 2019-2022: Discussion (5 Jul 2022)

Paul Kehoe: I was going to suggest that the clerk speak to Ms McCaffrey about it. We can do that in October or November.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Ireland Prison Education Strategy 2019-2022: Discussion (5 Jul 2022)

Paul Kehoe: If Ms McCaffrey wishes to hold an event for the prisoners themselves, we would be delighted to take up the offer.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Ireland Prison Education Strategy 2019-2022: Discussion (5 Jul 2022)

Paul Kehoe: I thank Ms O'Connell. I call Deputy Ó Laoghaire.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Ireland Prison Education Strategy 2019-2022: Discussion (5 Jul 2022)

Paul Kehoe: I call Deputy Crowe.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Ireland Prison Education Strategy 2019-2022: Discussion (5 Jul 2022)

Paul Kehoe: Would the IPEA like that extended to other third level institutions?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Ireland Prison Education Strategy 2019-2022: Discussion (5 Jul 2022)

Paul Kehoe: During the previous session, we spoke to the witnesses about the same topic. I spoke about students in their early 20s, who were in the middle of their third level course but end up in prison for different reasons - they have to do the time if they did the crime. They spoke with the Maynooth University partnership and are able to get out on day visits to attend university. Would the IPEA...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Ireland Prison Education Strategy 2019-2022: Discussion (5 Jul 2022)

Paul Kehoe: It is only proper that arrangements are made. The committee would like to follow up on that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Ireland Prison Education Strategy 2019-2022: Discussion (5 Jul 2022)

Paul Kehoe: Before I conclude, are there any further questions?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Ireland Prison Education Strategy 2019-2022: Discussion (5 Jul 2022)

Paul Kehoe: We are going to visit one of the prisons. That will be beneficial for the whole committee to see. As I said to the earlier witnesses, if we can be of any assistance in progressing the witnesses' work, we would like to. I believe that the days of locking people up and throwing away the key is long gone. Education is a key enabler to get people out of the quagmire of criminality or such...