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- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (22 Sep 2022)
Paul Kehoe: 263. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department is considering using a former school building (details supplied) for a purpose other than education; if so, when she expects the decision to be made; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46389/22]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Transport Issues: Engagement with Minister for Education (21 Sep 2022)
Paul Kehoe: On behalf of the committee, I would like to welcome the Minister for Education, Deputy Norma Foley, and her officials here today. The Minister is here to discuss the school transport issue. As we all know, this issue has dominated the headlines, especially in rural communities, over the last two months. The format of the meeting is that I will invite the Minister to make a brief opening...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Transport Issues: Engagement with Minister for Education (21 Sep 2022)
Paul Kehoe: I thank the Minister. I call Senator Pauline O'Reilly.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Transport Issues: Engagement with Minister for Education (21 Sep 2022)
Paul Kehoe: I will let the Minister come back in. There will be loads of time at the end of the meeting but I want to bring in other members because other Deputies and Senators will wish to speak. Deputy O'Laoghaire is next.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Transport Issues: Engagement with Minister for Education (21 Sep 2022)
Paul Kehoe: Thank you. I will allow Deputy Ó Laoghaire to come back in near the end, if time allows. I call Senator O'Loughlin who will be followed by Senator Aisling Dolan.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Transport Issues: Engagement with Minister for Education (21 Sep 2022)
Paul Kehoe: Minister, I will have to cut you off. We have gone over time.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Transport Issues: Engagement with Minister for Education (21 Sep 2022)
Paul Kehoe: Minister, we cannot allow officials to come in. I do not want to set a precedent for the officials to come in-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Transport Issues: Engagement with Minister for Education (21 Sep 2022)
Paul Kehoe: I thank the Minister and the Deputy. I call Deputy Conway-Walsh, to be followed by Deputy Pádraig O'Sullivan.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Transport Issues: Engagement with Minister for Education (21 Sep 2022)
Paul Kehoe: I will allow the Minister to respond after Deputy Nolan's contribution.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Transport Issues: Engagement with Minister for Education (21 Sep 2022)
Paul Kehoe: Before we bring in the non-members of the committee, I know Senator Flynn still has to come in. I also have some questions myself. The school transport issue has dominated the headlines both locally and nationally for the month of August and into September. Every town's secondary school has been greatly affected and the students thereby. It is definitely not an isolated incident. It has...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Transport Issues: Engagement with Minister for Education (21 Sep 2022)
Paul Kehoe: I know that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Transport Issues: Engagement with Minister for Education (21 Sep 2022)
Paul Kehoe: The Minister has given that context already and I am happy to-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Transport Issues: Engagement with Minister for Education (21 Sep 2022)
Paul Kehoe: Other members wish to come in. I have asked a direct question. It is not that I accept or do not accept something. I am giving what I have been getting from my constituents. I have asked the Minister a direct question and it is-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Transport Issues: Engagement with Minister for Education (21 Sep 2022)
Paul Kehoe: -----whether a student on a bus without a ticket is insured.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Transport Issues: Engagement with Minister for Education (21 Sep 2022)
Paul Kehoe: No, I will not. It would be totally unfair of me to give that information.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Transport Issues: Engagement with Minister for Education (21 Sep 2022)
Paul Kehoe: Absolutely.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Transport Issues: Engagement with Minister for Education (21 Sep 2022)
Paul Kehoe: I am asking if a student who is on the bus without a ticket is insured.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Transport Issues: Engagement with Minister for Education (21 Sep 2022)
Paul Kehoe: I am asking if that person is insured.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Transport Issues: Engagement with Minister for Education (21 Sep 2022)
Paul Kehoe: What the Minister is telling me is that she does not know the answer.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Transport Issues: Engagement with Minister for Education (21 Sep 2022)
Paul Kehoe: Yes.